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home stretch. 


by Rosemary Oliver = 
“An ad hoc committee 
composed of student leaders 
from  Montreal-aréa post- 
secondary schools is 
organizing a demonstration 
Wednesday, April 9, in the form 
of a mock French class. 

The demonstrators, from 
anglophone and francophone 


institutions, will ask Quebec's , 


Minister of Cultural Affairs, Dr. 
Camille Laurin, for a response 
to the demands they presented 
to him last December 3. 


The students, backed by 


* L'Association Nationale des 


(Etudiants du Québec (ANEQ) ) 
and the Rassemblement des 
Associations des Etudiants 
Universitaires, (RAEU)~ are 
demanding an amendment to 
Clause 39 of the French 
Language’ charter which will 
discontinue 
permits allowing anglophones 
to.work while they learn French. 

“We want to sensitize people 
to the fact that there's still 
some anglos wanting to learn 
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“willing to help them out,” said 
Benoit Laurin, Students’ 
Society vp external. 


The organizers are expecting © 


between 50 and 100 demon- 
strators for what Laurin 








by Carl Heine 

The first anniversary of the 
Three Mile Island nuclear acci- 
dent was marked in Montreal 
last Friday with a demonstrat- 
lon outside of the downtown 
headquarters of the Canadian 
Atomic Commission. 


Several hundred people part- 
icipated in the three-hour pro- 
test, organized by the Canadian 
Coalition for Nuclear Resp- 
onsibility (CCNR). 

Dr. Gordon Edwards, 
chairman of the CCNR, spoke 
out against the approaching 


‘Science 
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L’édition Française | 
x | Les problèmes de constitution 
: per Ca RE al’ vaan 


 ANEQ, RAEU stage demo 
against language law 





describes as “essentially a 
media event." 

“The idea is not to have a big 
demo, but to have a symbolic 
French class,” to prove our 
point,” he said. - 


Anti-nukers mark 
Three Mile Island. 


startup of the Gentilly Il 
reactor, 


He warned that the power 


plant was located in an area 
* with a high risk of earthquake, 


about mid-way between Mont- 
real and Quebec City. 

He also criticized the reactor 
because nuclear planners had 


omitted a vacuum contain- 


ment bullding, a standard 
feature on other Candus. Plan- 
ners are also experimenting 
with a high pressure emergency 
cooling system, which Ed- 
wards warned was of untested 
effectiveness. 


April 2, 1980 


Daily Sports 
Basketball Redmen off to Portugal 
eS -Redmania gets, a facellft 


Afghanistan reports 
Imaccurate says _ 
returning journalist 








HAMILTON (CUP) — The Amer- 


_ ican and European press are 


grossly exaggerating events in 
Afghanistan and Pakistan, says 
a Globe and Mail reporter who 
recently returned from the area. 


Victor Malarek, in an in- 
terview with McMaster 
University's The Silhouette, 


said a lot of stories coming out 
of Afghanistan since the Soviet 
invasion in December are 
simply being fabricated and 
that others are exaggerated. 
“Upon arriving in Rawalpindi, 


| | walked down to get my press 


accreditation through the 
government. When | got that, | 
was waiting in one of the of- 
fices and a couple of reporters 
had come in from Peshawar 
where the rebel encampments 
_are, and | started to talk to them 


* about their experiences. 


“One reporter laughed when | 
told them | had heard a lot of 
things had been happening. 
And she said, ‘A lot of things 
had been made up.’ 

"So | said, ‘What do. you 
mean?’ And she said, ‘You will 
know when you get there.’ "” 

Malarek had been informed 
by this reporter that a lot of 
stories had to be “matched.” 
According to Malarek, ‘“mat- 
ching is a phrase that you hear 
from an editor. You see a story 
on page one of a newpaper and 
you happen to be in Ottawa or 
in Washington, and you get a 
phone call from your editor and 
he says. he wants that story 
matched.” 

“You don't argue the point; 
you match it. It is an old 
tradition that should have been 
killed a long time ago,” he said. 

Malarek was also told, 
“There is a lot of colorful stuff 
here and the cause is worth it. 
These goddamn Russians... 

However, when Malarek had 
asked whether they (the news 
stories) were true or not, he was 
told that Pakistan officials were 
handing down a ‘lot of line.” 

On his trip to Peshawar, 
Malarek noticed that a lot of 
stories were being made up. 
Depressed and frustrated, 
Malarek called his editor at The 
Globe and Mail saying, “It is 
not happening here the way | 
have read about it and the way | 
have seen it_on television. It is 
just not happening! | can sit 
here and write the most colorful 
stories and convince anybody, 


The Weekly 
Let's go fly a kite. 
Sex Pistols shoot from hip 


because it's so far away 
anyway. Who the hell is going 
to come here and check? 

“Everyone here is writing it 
too! You can almost come up 
with Pulitzer Prize winning 
prose, if that’s what you want. 
But that's not what is hap- 
pening.’ 

The truth of the matter, 
alleges Malarek, is that “the 
Pakistan government press 
officials are trumping up 
stories; the rebel leaders are 
trumping up stories; the leaders 
at the camps, the refugee 
camps, are trumping up 
stories." 

In other words, very little is 





being challenged by the press. 


The reports are being passed 
on as facts, not as claims or 
allegations. 

Malarek went on to cite an 
example. “The first thing that 
happened is | would stand 
around and see the television 
crews come in, and they would 
be filming rebels with rifles and 
they would set up a meeting at » 
the Hezmi Islami (the governing 
political party) headquarters 
where Gulbadeen is head of 
that group. 

"So, in comes the Australian 
news crews, and they shoot it 
over and over again, because 
they want the rebel leader to 
look really tough and mean! 

“Then they start all this 
choreographic questioning and 
looking at maps. And it looks as 
if he is coming into a really 
tough area. It’s not! It’s just a 
little shack in the outskirts of 
Peshawar,” Malarek added. 

“it's all a set-up,’ Malarek 
claims. ‘So when you look at it 
on television or read it in the 
paper, it is not what it appears 
to be." 

However, Malarek is quick to 
point out that undoubtedly 
there is a lot of fighting in 
Afghanistan. “There are tanks 
all over the place. When | 
landed in Kabul, Afghanistan, 
four Russian transport planes 


‘ arrived within a ten-minute 
period, 

“So, l'm not trying to say that 
there is no fighting in 


Afghanistan. What | am trying 
to get through is that the 
reporters are not allowed out of 
their hotel rooms (in 
Afghanistan) and yet they are 
busy working at their 
typewriters.” 


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OTTAWA (CUP) — Two Chi- 


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nese-Canadian groups have 


: registered their dissatisfaction 


in good faith. 


“We do not consider the 
token gesture of CTV anywhere 
near a sincere and honest 
response to the public con- 
demnation against W5's 
‘Campus Giveaway’ show.” 


With. those words the 


» Montreal branch of the Ad Hoc 








à Committee Against W5 served 
mnotice that it would continue its 
attack on the television net- 
Fvork for airing a program on 


* president of the Council of 
’ Chinese-Canadians in Ontario 


(CCIO), said CTV did not ad- 
dress the objections to the 


program and wants an apology. 


“more directed to the issue.” 
Both groups were reacting to 
a statement of regret, aired by 
W5 on March 16, which said the 
program “sincerely regrets any 


* offence that. may have been 


unintentionally given to the 
Chinese- Canadian com- 
munity.” 


Ap ology insufficient says W5 
ad hoc committee 


The statement was made in 
a positive way,” he said. “| 
don't understand their com- 


sincere regret,’’ Lumb said. 


He explained that the 


statement was made during the 


first segment of the program, 
“the. equivalent of putting a 


retraction on the front page ofa 


newspaper.” ‘We didn't bury 
it,” he added. ‘We said it right 
up front where we have the 
majority of viewers.” 

Lumb said CTV was not 
trying to “defuse” the apology 
as the CCIO charged. “Do-you 


The W5 statement came five 
months after CTV broadcast 
“The Campus Giveaway,”’ 
which alleged that foreign 
students were taking the 
places of Canadians in certain 
university -programs. Film 
footage and commentary left 
the impression that the foreign 
students were overwhelmingly 
Chinese and ignored the fact 


that many stddents shown on. 


the program were actually 
Chinese-Canadians. 
Hut- 





Telecommunications Com- 


mission (CRTC) for a public © 


inquiry into tne show and will 


{ . With the recent CTV W5 plaints.” ‘continue libel’ and defamation 
+ =  : apology, although the producer “There is no room for doubt. suits against CTV. 
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The committee is willing to 
negotiate with CTV, said Lee, 
but is sticking to its original 
demands of: 

@ equal time to reply to W5 
charges 

® anofficial apology 

@ a guarantee from the net- 
work that it will not air a similar 
show on any community group 
in the future. 


W5 has promised a follow-up 


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McMaster males refuse 
co-ed lodgings 


HAMILTON (CUP) — They like 
women but they don't want to 
live with them. 

That’s the message from 


Supreme court: Differential 
fees not discriminatory 


EDMONTON (CUP) — Alberta 
universities and the provincial 


_ government have the right to 


levy higher fees for foreign 
students, the appellate division 
of the Supreme Court of Alberta 
ruled recently. 


The appeal by the Federation 
of Alberta Students (FAS) 
charged that differential fees 


Sagaris said FAS will review 
the decision and the pertinent 
legislation before deciding if 
any further legal action will be 
taken. 

As well, she said FAS will 
increase its efforts in the 
political arena providing more 
information for students and 
government about the effects 
of differential fees. 


disagree with the university’s 
decision to make the residence 
co-educational next fall. 


Banners hanging from the 


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and “Would you want your 
daughter to live here? We 
don't.” 


At a rally outside the building 
a -predominantiy male crowd 
cheered as student union 
president Ann Blackwood 


‘vowed to fight the university’s 


decision to make the residence 
co-educational next fall. 


Blackwood called the move 
the final straw in a series of 
incidents in which she said the 
administration had. failed to 


Chu said W5 host Helen In the W5 statement; are illegal and  contravene: consult wit 
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statement did not apologize for students in Canada. She said y rigin 





 calling us foreign.” 


“CTV has tried to defuse the 
importance of an apology by” 
not contacting us before alring 
the message,” he said. 

Siukeong Lee, Montreal co- 

ordinator of the ad hoc com- 
mittee, said the W5 statement 
was not a real apology and did 
not satisfy the group at all. 

“After having clearly insulted 


the correct figure was 58,000 
according to government 
estimates. 


But Lee said that even in. 


admitting their mistake, W5 
was being less than honest. He 
said the show referred to 
universities and colleges when 
talking about how many foreign 
students were in the country 
but the apology figure also 


ported a January 1979 decision 
that differential fees are not 
discriminatory. 


FAS. executive officer Lake 
Sagaris expressed disap- 
pointment at the decision, 

“Differential fees don’t raise 
a large amount of revenue for 
the university and they do hurt 
the international students,” 
she sald. 

“Its another: symptom of 


decision. 

Wright said it would take a 
court or judge “less prejudiced 
in favour of the status quo to 
reverse the decision.” - 

He said the Supreme Court of 
Canada might consent to hear 
an appeal, and it is unlikely that 
the decision would be over- 
turned. 

The 


UofA’s 1,100 _ in- 


ternational students now pay 


male students. We can't un- 
derstand it and we're not going 
to put up withit.!! 


She urged students to sign a 
petition and voice their protest 
at a student union meeting next 
Wednesday. 


Doug Richardson, residence 
president, said ‘we like women. 
Don't get me wrong." 


“But we prefer the male 


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that may have been given, and 
says it is unintentional,” Lee 
saying it Is unintentional,” Lee 
the statement. 

“We say this is nelther 
honest nor fair. CTV must face 
the issues, admit all mistakes, 


apologize and compensate." ~ - 


But Lionel Lumb, W5 
producer, said the statement 
was “put out in good faith.” 


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medical 


Lee said that, according to 
the association of universities 
and colleges of Canada 
(AUCC), there are 18,000 in- 
ternational university students 
and therefore W5 had tried to 
minimize the gross distortions 
it had made, 


The committee: also pointed 
out other errors in W5's original 
figures, It said that while W5 


claimed a 30 per cent foreign : 


student ratio at the University 


- of Toronto's pharmacy faculty, 


there were actually no foreign 
students enrolled. and that 
instead of W5's 400 foreign 
students there’ are 
actually a total of 85, including 
66 from the US. : 


Lee said the committee and 


_ other groups in Canadian cities 


will. continue 


to press the 


Canadian Radio-Television and . 


educational system." \ 


In Memoriam 


landed immigrants. 


Christine Bechtel 


In loving memory of our dear daughter who died 
accidentally on April 28, 1979, 


No longer here in our lives to share 
But in our hearts you’re always there. 
Forever loved and sadly missed, Mom and Dad, 


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Last Thursday | made the most difficult political 
decision an anglophone canmake. 

| decided to vote “yes” in the upcoming referendum on 
sovereignty-association. 

The decision was not an easy one. Whatever the result 
of the referendum, my national identity will remain 
unrelentingly Canadian. | am a Jewish Quebecer born of 
anglophone parents from Manitoba and rural Quebec, and 
the result of a referendurh will not change my allegiance to 
the concept of a multi-ethnic, multi-cultured Canada. 





Unfortunately, there is a large group of francophone 


Quebecers who do not share my appreciation of a pan- 
Canadian nation. 

Recent polls have shown that the majority of Québécois 
surveyed look towards the National Assembly, and not to 
Parliament for political direction. The vast majority of 
Quebec governments have followed nationalist progam- 
mes. In spite of overwhelming odds, francophone 
Quebecers have managed to retain their language and 
culture on acontinent dominated by anglophones. 

According to international law, French Quebec, with its 
common heritage, language, history and culture must be 
considered as a nation with a legal right to self. 
determination. 

If democratic institutions are to survive in Quebec, the 
anglophone community must recognize Quebec's national 
Status. This doesn't mean that they have to vote “yes", or 
that the Quebec “problem” will be solved following a 
majority ‘“yés" or ‘‘no" vote. It does mean that until 
Quebec is recognized as a nation effective constitutional 
change will be impossible. 

Yet the federalist camp, at least that lead by Claude 
Ryan's “non” forces, has not recognized Quebec's 
national status. Ryan's Beige paper relegates Quebec to 
the same status as any other province, ignoring the 
present day realities of Quebec political life. 

In fact, one could argue that the Beige paper is far more 
dangerous to federalism than the PQ's “new deal.” 

Under the terms of the White paper, Ottawa's power over 
Canada's remaining nine provinces would not necessarily 
diminish. Ryan's proposal would force Ottawa to give up 
Important federal powers to the provinces, and not just to 
the Quebec Nation. : 

Ultimately, the implementation of the Belge paper could 
destroy whatever remains of Canada's independence from 
the United States. Canada needs a strong central govern- 
ment to survive. The Beige paper would shift badly needed 


Comment 


Despite the fact that more than a month has passed since 
the service workers strike threatened to shut down McGill, 
Senate has yet to acknowledge the need for a clear policy 
outlining the rights of students in such matters. 

To merely state that students as well as staff have the 
right to respect picket lines Is not enough, for to say 
otherwise would be a denial of freedom of conscience. 

What Is needed Is a policy that determines how far this 
right extends with regard to a student's academic 
responsibilities, While ‘there is no denying that one must 
suffer the consequences of one's conscience, there are 
some penalties that are excessively punitive. There is, after 
all, more at stake than a pay cheque for the student with a 
social conscience. No student should have his entire 
academic year jeopardized simply because he refused to 
cross a picket line In order to take an exam or hand in a 
paper. 

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federal powers to the provinces, and would prevent cen- 
tralized planning of economic development and social 
services. 

Giving Prince Edward Island the same degree of self. 
determination as Quebec will not solve our constitutional 
problems. If federalism is to survive, it must recognize 
Quebec’s special status as a nation within Canada's 
borders. 

This doesn't mean that the PQ's option is the best way 
to solve Canada’s constitutional impasse. It isn't, but it's 
the best choice available. 

A “no"’ vote will be interpreted as one of two things: 
support for the Beige paper, or support for-the status quo, 
Under these circumstances, i cannot support the “no” 
option. 

Of course, the PQ's option is not without its faults. 
Present PQ policy calls for Quebec to be further integrated 
into the U.S. economy. This policy is naive; Quebec cannot 
possibly hope to maintain its independence if it is 
economically dominated by the United States. 

The PQ's industrial strategy is also questionable. At 
present, the government's economic plan calls for an ened 
to nationalization following the conclusion of the Asbestos 
deal. Nationalization is one of the most important tools for 
economic self-determination. By giving up this option, the 
PQ is effectively “selling out the economic rights of all 


Quebecers. 


Sovereignty-association is not the best available option. 
But my preferred option, a democratic socialist Canada, is 
not on the ballot. A “yes” vote will not by itself solve the 
problem of foreign ownership and its accompanying 
problems of high interest rates, extrateritoriality of 


economic control, and high structural unemployment. 


It will also fail to solve the problem of minority language 
rights within Canada’s two nations. A Bill or Rights, 
however, could, and should be entrenched in the con- 
Stitution following the conclusion oi the negotiations that 
would be mandated by the referendum's passage. __ 

The negotiation of sovereignty-association, if the 
referendum does pass, will be long and painful. Un- 
fortunately, a trip to the constitutional dentist appears to 
be in order; our federation has badly decayed under the 
regime of an obsolete BNA act. : 

Voting “no” is the same as voting for the Beige Paper. 


_ And a vote for the Beige paper is a vote for a weak central 


government. 

The “yes" option is not a cure-all. It doesn't adress. all 
the issues at hand. 

| don't like what I'm doing. | wish there was another 


option.. 


But there isn't, so l'm voting “yes”. 
Harold Koblin 


Vice-Principal Pedersen accepted his responsibility as an 
administrator and provided some guidance to students who 
were unsure of their rights. In his letter of February 20, 
Pedersen urged that instructors take all reasonable steps to 
ensure that students who wished to respect picket lines not 
be penalized. | 

While Pedersen is to be commended for his action, it is 
nevertheless apparent that, had there been an effective 
policy regarding students’ rights during a strike at the time 
that the service workers walked out, there would have been 


no need for the “Pedersen Letter”. 


What is even more distressing is that although Senate 
voted to endorse the “Pedersen Letter” they refused to admit 
that It had set any precedent. In fact the letter was only 
endorsed to spare Pedersen the embarrassment of being 
contradicted by his colleagues. 

On April 9 Senate will entertain a student motion that asks 
that, in the event of a future strike, a letter similar to the 
“Pedersen Letter” be communicated to the .student body. 


Judging from the general hostility that has so far 


accompanied any discussion of strike activity, It is unlikely 
that the motion will meet with much success. Anything that 
sounds like future policy is just not very popular in Senate. 

: | Keith Boag 


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To the Dally: 


As the school year draws toa 
close, and as volume 69 of the 
Daily is about to fold, | would 
like to make a few comments 
about this year’s edition. 

As president of the McGill 
Debating Union, | would like to 
present the opinion of our club, 
and | believe our opinion is also 
shared by many other groups 
on campus. Our main com- 
plaint is your coverage of 
campus events. In the wake of 
the Students Society survey 
and the fees referendum, it is 
obvious that very few students 
know exactly what is going on 
under the Students Society 
umbrella. | must lay part of the 
blame for student ignorance at 
the Daily’s door. 

‘| have no. doubt tha 
someone will reply, ‘‘We are 
agents of social change, not 
StudSoc reporters." It sounds 
ince, but the fact remains that 
the Daily will soon be directly 
student-sponsored and has 
even more responsibility to 
those students to report that 
which concerns them. Fillers of 
amusing cartoons may be 
entertaining, but the space 
could be used just as 
profitablty to publicise or to 
inform students about campus 
events. 

The Debating Union has 
traditionally been slighted 
when it comes to coverage of 
debates or of speakers. When 
the Daily deigns to publish an 
article about some note-worthy 
appearing at McGill, very rarely 
do the sponsors get mentioned. 
The Debating Union's suc- 
cesses at inter-university 





‘competition are to a large 
although 


extent ignored, 
athletics usually gets two full 
pages per issue, with detailed 
accounts of each goal scored 
or each yard swum. In par- 


ticular, the fact that in the past - 


two months we have won prizes 
at the Smith College, Fordham 
University, Dalhousie 
University and Royal Military 
College tournaments is 
unknown to the majority of the 
student population. How else 
can people become aware of 
the activities of the Debating 
Union and of other groups in 
the same position, unless 
through the student press? 

To make matters worse, 
those who are interested in 
attending meetings are often 
confused or put off by the 

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Le bousillage systématique 
mené par les étudiants de 
Sciences de la gestion a 
empêché toute considération 


de l'ordre du jour et forcé 


l'ajournement sine die de l'as- 
semblée générale des étudiants 
de l'UQAM convoquée lundi par 
l'AGEUQAM pour discuter de la 
l'associa- 


lon, de la tutelle en Animation 


f et Recherche culturelle (ARC). 


Le président d'assemblée 
Plerre Houde a décidé l'ajour- 
nement sulte à l'impossibilité 
de gouverner une assemblée 
surchauffée et d'y faire obser- 
ver le décorum. Après deux 
heures et demi de débats 
houleux et mouvementés, l'or- 
dre du jour n'avait même pas 
été adopté et toutes les discus- 
sions en étaient restées aux 
questions de procédures. 

- Suite à la présence sur une 


base presque paritaire des deux. 


“camps” de l'UQAM, l'assem- 
blée de lundi avait vite tourné 


au vinaigre, indiquant une fois © 


de plus la farouche hostilité qui 


régit les rapports entre les 


étudiants de sciences de la 
gestion et le reste de ‘a 
population étudiante sympa- 
thique à l'AGEUQAM. 


À Le 
ASS 
mar 


Hier cependant, 12 modules 
étaient toujours en grève à 
l'UQAM pour soutenir les diver- 
ses revendications adoptées en 
plénière inter-modulaire (PIM) 
et sur lesquelles l'assemblée 
générale souveraine devait se 
prononcer. . 

Les quelque 1800 étudiants 
réunis au théâtre St-Denis, 
avalent d'abord élu par une 
faible majorité l'avocat proposé 
par les étudiants de gestion au 
poste de président d'assem- 
blée. Mais devant son manque 
flagrant de contrôle et son 
intention (encore inédite) d'uti- 
liser trois codes de procédures 
à la Tols et, de ce fait, ne pas 
respecter la tradition de 


l'AGEUQAM, les étudiants ont 


voté sa révocation. - 
Les étudiants d'administra- 
tion, faiblement majoritaires 
dans la salle, et manifestement 
opposés au principe même de 
l'AGEUQAM, ont tout entrepris 
pour empêcher le bon fonction- 
nement de l'assemblée, ap- 
plaudissant même à tout rom- 
pre quant fut annoncée la levée 
de celle-ci. Alléguant que 
l'AGEUQAM n'est pas repré- 
sentative, ils n'étaient même 
pas intéressés à discuter le 
contenu des propositions, visi- 
blement satisfaits de perturber 


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Une atmosphère chauffée à blanc, des étudiants des sciences de la gestion uniquement présents 


” Les ‘sciences de la gestion’’ 
perturbent l'assemblée : 
generale de l'UQAM. 


l'assemblée. 

Non sans quelque chauvinis- 
me et en laissant une amère 
impression d'un an- 
tidémocratisme le plus com- 
plet, ils ont scandé tout au 
cours de la réunion des slogans 


du type ‘‘vous aurez 
l'AGEUQAM que nous 
voudrons’’ et ‘‘à bas 
l'AGEUQAM"". 


L'assemblée générale spéci- 
ale avait été convoquée essen- 
tiellement pour adopter une 


‘série de moyens d'actions 


visant à accélérer le règlement 
des différents litiges en cours à 
l'UQAM. Contrairement aux 
dires des étudiants de gestion 
qui ont brandi le spectre de la 
grève générale et de la consé- 
quente fermeture de l'universi- 
té, les propositions de 
suite à la page 43 


par Denis Gascon 

17 associations dépar- 
tementales regroupant plus de 
5000 étudiants ont débrayé 
toute le journée hier à 
l'Université de Montréal -pour 


pour faire du grabuge, et voilà une assemblée générale importante que l'AGEUQAM doit remettre 


sans avis... — 


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April 2, 1980 


par Denis Gascon 


Ajoutant l'injure à l'insulite, 
l'administration de l'UQAM a 
fait venir l'escouade anti- 
émeute de la police de Montréal 
hier après-midi pour évacuer 
les quelque 100 étudiants qui 
occupaient les locaux du 
département d'Animation et de 
Recherche Culturelle (ARC). 


Appréhendant sans doute 
“un soulèvement populaire”, 
les forces de l'ordre (sic) ont 
envoyé pas moins de 12 
voitures et plus de 25 agents. 
Armés de matraques et portant 
des casques, les policiers ont 
Invité les étudiants à se retirer 
dans l'ordre sans quoi Ils se 
verraient “contraints” à utiliser 
la force pour les expulser. Sous 
le regard intimidateur des 
policiers, les étudiants se sont 
donc retirer pacifiquement, non 
sans qu'un caporal impatient 
“d'agir” ne crie aux curieux 
d'aller dehors ‘s'ils ne 
voulaient pas se faire bûcher 


dire publiquement leur appui 
aux départements d'histoire, de 
psychologie et de sociologie en 
grève depuis près de 6 
semaines et dénoncer 
vigoureusement l'injonction 
obtenue jeudi dernier par 
l'administration de l'institution. 

Des lignes de piquetage ont 
été dressées par les étudiants 
sur tous les différents campus 
de l'U de M, paralysant même 
complètement le pavillon 
Lionel-Groulx où ‘siègent les 
sciences humaines et le 


pavillon Marie-Victorin qui: 


abrite entre autres les dépar- 
tements de psychologie, 
communcations et préscolaire- 
élémentaire, 

Les étudiants ont aussi 
distribué des tracts a la 
grandeur de l'université pour 
faire connaître les griefs des 
étudiants en grève. Au nombre 
des départements en grève, on 
retrouve entre autres, ce quiest 
inhabituel, les facultés de 
médecine et de droit de mème 
que la plupart des dépar- 


. tements en science humaines. 


Le mouvement de 
protestation qui a connu une 
ampleur inédite depuis l'ob- 
tention par - l'administration 
d'une injonction temporaire 
interdisant toute occupation 
des locaux administratifs, 
aurait selon certaines 
estimations perturbé les cours 
de près de 10000 étudiants. 

Par ailleurs un juge de la 
Cour Supérieure a accédé à la 
demande de l'administration de 


l'U de M hier matin et reconduit | 


l'injonction temporaire jusqu'à 


L'édition française 


UQAM: Au tour 
de l’anti-émeute ! 


apparaît en quelque sorte come 


l'AGEUQAM que nous voulons" 


encore une fois, les étudiants 


et n’avise les photographes de 









la presse et de l'association de 
ne pas prendre de photo sous 
peine de voir leur appareil 
appréhendé... 

L'évènement, qui après les 
innombrables fins de non-rece- 
voir de l'administration, son 
refus de négocier, son inconsi- |: 
dération totale pour l'AGEU- 
QAM et le comportement fas- 
ciste des étudiants de gestion, 


la cerise sur l'énorme “gâteau 
de répression” de l'UQAM, a 
soulevé l'ire des étudiants 
présents. Furleux, à bout et]. 
révoltés, ils ont manifesté sur la 

tue St-Denis en chantant ‘a bas 
la répression’, “nous aurons 


et en décriant la pseudo- 
démocratie de ‘‘l'UQAM- 
univerité populaire’’, 
“démocratie” qui, il va s'en 


dire, en prend pour son rhume 
dans le présent conflit. Et, 


ont dénoncé ces “10 ans 
d'utopie, 10 ans de mauvaise 
foi”. 







: L’injonction suscite de vives protestations à l’U de M 


5000 étudiants en débrayage . 


mercredi prochain. L'univerité 
aurait bien aimé transformer 
cette injonction en injonction 
permanente. Quelque 40 
étudiants ont assisté. a 
l'audition de la cause pendant 
qu'une trentaine manifestaient 
paisiblement devant le Palais 
de Justice. 

‘Ltinjonction a suscité de 
vives protestations de la part 
des ‘étudiants, ceux-ci 
allèguant qu'elle est inutile et 
ne peut que détériorer l'état 
déjà précaire des négociations. 
Bien qu'ils la rejettent et 
continuent de ne pas assister 
aux cours, les étudiants ont , 
toutefois fait savoir qu'ils la 
respectent toujours pour éviter 
toutes représailles légales. Ils 
essaieront par tous les moyens 
légaux possibles de la faire 
retirer. 

.‘La journée d'hier est la 
deuxième journée de solidarité 
parrainée par l'association 
générale (FAECUM). Le 13 mars 
dernier, 2000 étudiants 
provenant de 8 départements 
“avaient débrayé en appui aux 
trois départements en grève. 
Ces dernier demandent 
principalement une réforme de 
leur programme respectif et un 
pouvoir étudiant effectif en ce 
qui concerne les questions 
pédagogiques. En psychologie 
par exemple, les étudiants 
revendiquent: “un programme 
mieux défini en fonction des 
problèmes du milieu” et 
dénoncent ‘le décalaae entre 
la inécrie universitaire et la 

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® The per capita tax yields in Quebec are lower than the National. : 
average, which serves as a base for the FEDERAL govern- : - 
ment's FINANCING. In order to finance the same expenditures 
that are now being made to OTTAWA, the Quebec Government A 
would HAVE to set HIGHER tax rates to compensate for the | | 
difference in the yield. | | 


© Equalization payments from the Federal Government for the 
provincial governments’ expenditures were nearly $1.5 | 1 
BILLION in 1978-79. It has grown constantly since 1967 when 
the payment was $269 million. The White Paper does not 
mention this and these contributions would disappear with 
sovereignty-association. 


* @ The price of oil and gas has been kept down from FEDERAL 
energy programs and Quebec taxpayers have benefited 
directly from it. In 1979, the saving to Quebecers was more 
than $1.5 billion. This saving, of course would also disappear 
with sovereignty-association. 


® The tax contribution of Quebecers is by far the highest in the 

- country. It is 23% higher than the average of the other 
provinces and 26% higher than in Ontario. The White Paper 
mentions a great deal about. “‘the prosperous economy... and 
social progress”, but it is strangely silent on what it would 
COST and how it would be financed. | 





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by Anita Schapiro 


Students at: Macdonald 


College in St. Anne de Bellevue 
-are McGill students, too. 


But they occupy the other 
campus of McGill that those of 
us downtown don’t know much 
about. 

Nearly 20 per cent of Mac- 
donald students are foreigners. 
And while one-third of the 1980 
graduating class is fran- 
cophone, two-thirds of the Uis 


are francophone. Altogether, 
there are some 900 students 


enrolled at Macdonald. They 


graduate with McGill degreesin | 


Agriculture, Agricultural 

Engineering, Food Science, 

Education, and Commerce. 
Macdonald shares facilities 


With John Abbott College, the 
+ most 


prestigious English 
 CEGEP in the province, with its 
-new $7.5 million athletic center. 
-Dorms are also shared. 

Most of the old Macdonald 


= buildings, dating back to 1907, 


“have been leased to John 
- Abbott. The majority of classes 
“are now held in the new 
Macdonald Stewart Building, 
-the Barton Building houses a 
“library of nearly 100,000 
volumes and the Centennial 
Center is the student ‘union 
building. 

A new pub called the Kaleigh 


~— Gaelic for the gathering 


place — has a capacity of 263, 
ample 


deejay’s booth. 
The Harvest is Macdonald's 
_ bi-weekly student newspaper. 


The Macdonald Journal, 


covers 
and 


published monthly, 
agricultural research 


“development. 


The students’ council is run 


‘much the way McGill's is, with 


the exception of the Agriculture 
Undergraduate's Society (AUS). 
The AUS - is separate—it 


generates: its own funds by 


asking a dollar from anyone 
who wants to join. However, it 
is bound by the council con- 
stitution. { 

Outdoor life is an in- 
dispensible part of Macdonald 
‘life: log-rolling and: apple- 
picking in autumn, ‘special 
winter sports when the snow is 
on the ground, sugaring-off and 
planting. in the spring. 
Distances between campus 
facilities are considerable, 
often more than a mile, so 
run or ride 
bicycles as part of their daily 
routine. 

The expansive grounds that 
comprise Macdonald are used 
for recreational as well as for 
farming and research purposes. 
Each year, the Woodsman 
is held at the 
Morgan Arboretum, Macdon- 
ald's 540-acre tract of natural 
woodlands. 

There are twelve events in 


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the cramer er emanate 
ng, ax-throwing and x-country 
skiing are some of them. Teams 
come from across Eastern 
Canada and the US to compete. 
The Macdonald team took first 
place for 1980. . 

Research goes on daily at 
in many special 
fields that relate not only to 


agriculture and science, but to 


ecology. Its reputation is not 
just known in agrarian circles; it 
has made the pages of the 
Gazette and Time Magazine. 
Macdonald is the home of a 
radar/weather observatory, the 
Brace Research Institute, a 
Game Bird Preserve, the Dairy 


Herd Service Center, a Water : 


Research Center, the National 
Reference Center ‘for 


Parasitology, the Lyman En- 


tomological Center, the Morgan 
Arboretum, and the Ecological 
Agricultural Project. 

The Brace Institute studies 
wind and solar energy. The 
Dairy Herd Service Center 
serves all of Quebec and some 
U.S. and Ontario farmers in 
protein and fat/content sam- 
pling for dairy products. The 
Parasitology center offers 
Masters and PhD programs— 
some selected courses are also 
offered to undergraduates. 

The Morgan Arboretum, 
where the Woodsman Com- 
petition is held, was set-up as 
‘ta model for integrated 
multiple use .forestry.”’ It 
supports tree species from all 
over the world and is used to 
study efficient ecological use 
of forest resources. It also has 
a botanical trail, its own bird 
sanctuary, recreational trails, 
and is the site for numerous 


soil, water, and forest con- 
servation projects. The Ar- 
boretum yearly produces 


timber and quantities of maple 
syrup. 

The Ecological Agricultural 
Project is a special resource 
library located on campus. Its 
information is accessible to the 
public, and seeks to raise in- 
ternational awareness of the 
possibilities of ecological food 
systems, in view of limited 
supplies of food worldwide. lt 
stresses the importance of 
ecological food systems over 
advanced technological 
systems, and is therefore 
particularly concerned with 
developing nations. The Project 
has taken part in international 
agriculture and food con- 
ferences, and has been widely 
consulted across North 
America: X 

College Royal is an annual 
symposium at Macdonald on 
agricultural development. 
Macdonald graduates who 
spoke this year included David 
Hopper, Vice President of the 
World Bank. 


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Create your own summer job 


by Louise Haberl 

The Canada Summer Youth 
Employment Program offers an 
alternative to the usual 
restaurant or factory job that 
awaits students each summer. 
- The program, funded by the 
federal government, aims to 
give post-secondary students 
the chance to work in an area 
directly related to their field of 
study. “The focus this year is 
on obtaining experience in the 
student's studies,” said Lise 
Harel, the program's Project 
Agent for the Montreal area. 


Under last year's Young 
Canada Works Program, 
Students submitted proposals 
for businesses such as painting 
services, aid for senior citizens 
and photography services. The 
jobs. were not necessarily 
related to the students’ studies. 

In addition to the career- 
oriented nature of this year’s 
program, students must have a 
sponsor for their project, such 
as a’ non-profit organization. 
This is a change from last 


year's program, in which there 


was. no organization § in- 


New women’s group 


by Kimberley Stephenson 

A series of summer 
workshops on various aspects 
of feminism will 


scheduled to formally open in 
the fall. 

The : proposed centre is 
designed to provide feminist 
teaching that women involved 
in the centre feel this city is 
lacking. And because the 
centre's courses will not be for 
credit, they feel it has as much 
or more to offer than other 
institutions with women’s 
studies programs. 

“It's been found that after 
the initial surge of enthusiasm 
people end up taking the 
courses as credits, and that 
students begin to take 
women’s studies to teach 
that subject. It also seems 
that students turn out to be less 


- radical,’ said Yvonne Klein, an 


English professor and one of 

the women actively involved in 

the founding of the centre. 
There will be a series of 10 


Ta April 2,1980 


launch the 
Centre for Feminist Culture, 


workshops, all interrelated, 
Starting on April 16 with an 
introduction, followed by three 
workshops on creativity and 
body image, one one women 
and mental health May 13, and 
on May 20 and 27, “Aspects of 
Past and Present Feminist 
Theory.” The workshops conc- 
lude with “Women and Busi- 
ness” led by Montreal busi- 
nesswoman Jessie Taras. A 
final session June 10 will 
assess the program and estab- 
lish how the centre will conduct 
itself in the fall. 

The women involved in the 
centre stress that the reception 
of the workshops will deter- 
mine the centre's fall activities. 

“If there are 2,000 people 
that's one thing, if there are 20, 
that’s another;” said Klein. 

All workshops will be con- 
ducted at the YWCA on: Dor- 
chester and are free of charge. 
For further information, phone 
931-8731 ext. 420. 


tervening between students 
and the government agencies 
that funded them. 

The deadline for the sub- 
mission of proposals was 
March 28th, although this does 
not mean that the accepted 
projects are closed to in- 
terested students. Each project 
will provide a minimum of three 
jobs, and students can apply 
for positions at Canada Em- 
ployment Centres beginning in 
May. 

Brent Hussey, a student at 
the Quebec Bar School and a 
former McGill student, helped. 
revise a directory of legal in- 
formation last summer as: part 
of a Young Canada Works 
Program. 

Hussey was enthusiastic 
about the idea of a career- 
oriented summer job. ‘You see 
the practical side of your career 
that you don't see in school,” 
he said. 


Hussey's project was a 
continuation of one started 
three years ago by the Federal 
Department of Justice. Last 
year it employed 18 students 
with various backgrounds, 
although most were studying 


_law. 


In addition to providing some 
practical expertise for 
students' careers, Hussey feels 
that the project has helped 
certain groups, in particular 
senior citizens, to become 
informed about Quebec, civil 
law. 

Students interested in ob- 
taining information about the 
Canada Summer Youth Em- 
ployment Program or other 
summer jobs should contact 
the McGill Student Placement 
Office. 


page 9/ The McGill Daily 


yUD Hine? ete RE 22, 








In this article the Daily looks at 
some of the year's most 
important and-or intriguing on- 


campus news Stories. 


RAEU and ANEQ 
More Important than intriÿ- 
ulng was the schism in early 


. October between two Quebec 


student groups. Quebec's all 
university student association 
(RAEU) decided to break away 
from ANEQ, a group of both 
university and CEGEP students 
that RAEU members felt was 
pursuing unrealistic policies 
detrimental to students. 

McGill jolned and contribut- 
ed financially to the newly 
independent RAEU. 

Over the year the organiza- 
tlon has pushed for the recogn- 
ition of student associations at 


-the universities of Laval and 


Quebec at Montreal, lobbied 
the provinclal government to 
extend the ‘period required for 
Quebec professionals to show 


proficiency in the French lang- ~ 


uage, worked at establishing 
internal structures for the 
group and began a critique of 
the Quebec government's study 
of unlversity education in the 
province. 
The McGill Referendum 
Committee 

This active committee got off 
the ground in September. Its 
aim was to be a non-partisan 
group promoting debate on the 
so-called Quebec question. 


In collaboration with other - 


campus groups it brought 
several well-known politicians 
to speak and sponsored debat- 
es.between students and prom- 
Inent members of the commun- 


Currently the referendum 
committee is circulating a 
questionnaire to gauge student 
opinion : on the sovereignty- 
association issue, ~ 
Playgirl 

A McGill. student became 
Playgirl’s first ever Canadian 
centrefold. Catch Burl Chester, 


a blology major, in this month's © 


Playgirl. 

South Africa Committee 
Students on this committee 

decided early on in the year that 

divestment was the best way to 

deal with South Africa’s apart- 


‘heid policies. Their report 


convinced Students’ Council to 
vote that McGill should get Its 
investments out of that coun- 


try. Since then the committee . 


has been trying, with limited 
success, to convince the Board 
of Governors. 

Its year's activities have 
included demonstrations out- 
side the Bank of Montreal, 
mass circulation of a petition 
and a Solidarity Week held In 
February. 

Maintenance workers’ strike 

Perhaps the biggest. single 
event of the year was the 
maintenance workers’ two week 
strike beginning in late Febru- 
ary. The’ main issue of the 
strike was” Job’ security as 
workers fought to hold onto 
thelr Jobs while McGill admin- 
Istrators were “planning for a 


page 10/The McGill Dally = «| 1 17) 





. Looking back: 


smaller university." | 
A strike support committee 


formed during the strike and. 


attracted both students and 
faculty members who showed 
their support for the strike by 
boycotting classes. 
Playboy at Sadle’s 

The selling of skin magaz- 
ines at the Students’ Society 
run Sadie’s generated heat 


early In the year. Foes of 


sexism and censorship battled 
It out in the Dally letters 
column and at the insistence of 
vp internal Debbi Shapiro the 








The year in review 


Issue ended up at council, 
where it was decided the 
Society shouldn't be profiting 
from the sale of sexist mater- 
lals and the magazines should 
cease to be sold. ; 
Liberal McGill : 
Liberal McGill’s hefty advert- 
Ising budget generated some 
Investigative reporting that rev- 
ealed the organization was not 
being funded solely by Indivi- 
duals but rather recelving dona- 
tions from outside businesses. 
Because Liberal McGill was not 
technically affiliated with the 


Liberal Party the issue didn't 


‘ come under the jurisdiction of 


provincial laws yet It revealed 
an important loophole in elect- 
lon campaign funding laws. 


The story was picked up by. 


local television and radio. 
Student evaluations of teachers 
Senate decided early on in 
the year to take student evalua- 
tions Into account when rec- 
ommending who should be 
receiving tenure. It later, how- 
ever, rejected the idea that 
these evaluations should all be 
made public and left the 


decision up to the departments 
Involved, 
Elections 

In a campus-wide referend- 
um students approved the idea 
of an eight dollar increase in 
their Students’ Society fees. 
They also voted to separate the 
Daily’s fee from the Students’ 
Society one in an attempt to 
enshrine freedom of the press. 

Elected to Students’ Council 
next year were Todd Ducharme 
as president, Daniel Gaucher as 
vp external and Mary Loulse 
Prosen as vp internal. 


Everybody knows that 


Accountants, Architects, 


Chiropractors, Dentists, 
Doctors,Engineers, 








Lawyers,Optometrists, 
Pharmacists and 
Veterinarians 2 
make far too much money. 


Everybody, that is, except you. 

The day you finish your studies is the day 
you'll see how expensive it is to set up a 
practice, buy equipment and handle your 
personal financial needs too. 

Without some financial guidance, it can 
be a tough row to hoe. That's why we, at the 
Royal Bank, wrote a book about the subject: 
“Financing Programs for Pre-Practicing 
Professionals”. It’s a realistic look at 
your situation, full of good advice and 


S693 13) titinzitsrs 


information on financial services avail- 
able to help you get started in business, 


and keep going. 


It even tells you how you can get a line of 
credit that you can start to use in your last 


.. year, to get ready for your first big year. 


Ask for it at your local Royal Bank 
Branch or write to us for it. It’s free. How 
often can you get professional advice that 


doesn’t cost you money? 


When you succeed..:we succeed. 


ge 


April2,19808LE 13! 


ROYAL BANK 








IMASCO IMASCO president: 
Business will suffer if Quebec votes yes in referendum 





by Richard Goldman 

The business community is 
acting in its own best interests 
in promoting the “no” vote 
during the ongoing referendum 
campaign, Imasco President 
and Chairperson Paul Paré told 
a McGill audience last Thur- 


.sday. 


Invited to speak by the McGill 
“No” Vote Committee, Paré 
who is also a director of the 
Royal Bank said that the 
referendum campaign “affects 
corporations directly because it 


threatens their prospects for 
future growth.” 

“Business must look at the 
consequences of a break-up of 
Canada and decide how to act,’ 
he said. “This may not be 
morally acceptable to some, 
but that is not a view we share." 

Paré said he became a 
Supporter and spokesman for 
the “no” option because he 
“did not want to see 112 years 
of confederation go down the 
drain", and that the real choice 
to be made was between 


ATTENTION ALL 
McGILL STUDENT LEADERS 


if you are the 1980-81 President 


Editor 


LL 


Chairperson 
Coordinator, or 
Chief Officer 


of any McGill student Club 


Society 

Publication 

Council 

Committee 

Association, or 

Service 
you must register with the McGill Students’ Society by 
April 15, 1980 if you wish your organization to 
@ be able to reserve meeting and events space in the 


Student Union at no cost 


@ be able to book space in other campus buildings at 


McGill rates 


@ receive the summer edition of the McGill Student 
Leader Bulletin keeping you informed of issues 


affecting campus groups 


-~ 


@ beable to place ads in the McGill Daily at reduced 


rates 


@ be invited toa leadership workshop in September 


@ receive a copy of the operating manual for student 
leaders to be published in August. 


Summer registration forms are available in the Students 
Society General Office, Room 105 of the Student Union, 
"3480 McTavish Street and should be handed in to Heather 
McLean, Secretary, NO LATER THAN APRIL 15th, 1980, or 


complete the following: 
- Organization 
Name 


* SummerAddress 





Summer Telephoné 1) 


. 





Title - 

APUEPSE 
Postal Code 
2) , | 


If you will not be in the Montreal area during the summer of 1980, 
please fill in the name and summer address of one member of 
your organization who will be in Montreal. 


Name 


Summer Address 





Summer Telephone 1) 


Title 
Apt. 
Postal Code 
2) 


LS 


Hand this form in at the Students’ Society General Office 
or mail to: Miss Heather McLean, Secretary 


3480 McTavish, Room 105 
Montreal, Quebec | 


H3A 1X9 





LS 


separation and renewed 
federalism. | 
Calling the BNA Act “a 


document that is a little worn at 
the edges,’ Paré said that 
confederation was in need of a 
comprehensive review in the 
light of current realities, and 
that indications from across 
Canada were that the country is 
finally ready for real con- 
stitutional reform. 

“We are on the threshold of a 
renewed federalism which will 
widen our horizons... My ‘no’ 
vote will be a vote to keep 
trying, to accept the new 
challenge rather than retreat,” 
he said. 

“If the ‘no’ option passes, we 
will have the chance to begin 
negotiation for renewed 
federalism...The consensus 
across Canada is that to delay 


negotiations would be to risk 
seeing our country fractured.” 

Paré said he _ recognized 
Québec’s right to self- 
determination but that he felt it 
would be “redundant” to en- 
shrine it in the Canadian 
constitution. 


“Business must look at 
the consequences of a 
break-up and decide 
how-to act.” 


Paré condemned the ‘narrow 
Péquiste dream of separation”, 
saying there are only a “hard 
core” of 20 per cent who sup- 
port the Parti-Québécois’ 
sovereignty-association option 
while ‘another 30 or 40 per cent 


are being lead down the garden 
path to an uncertain future." 
Imasco’s connections with 
South Africa were brought up 
during the question period. 
Imasco's largest shareholder is 
British American Tobacco 
Industries of England, ‘which 
has at least six fully owned 
subsidiaries operating in South 
Africa. When one student cited 


Statistics concerning working 


conditions prevalent in South 
Africa, and asked how the 
speaker could condone _in- 
volvement with such a state 
Paré replied: “| wish | knew as 
much about South Africa as 
you appear to do.” He said 
British American Tobacco is 
run by its own. board of 
directors, and that he had no 
involvement in the policies it 
establishes. 


Deteriorating journalism can 
only improve in near future 


by Brian Topp 

The commercial press in 
quebec has nowhere to go but 
up, according to Gerard Le- 
blanc, President of the Fédéra- 
tion Professionelle des Journa- 
listes du Québec. 

Speaking at the annual conf- 
‘erence of the Centre for Invest- 
Igative Journalism (CliJ) last 
weekend, Leblanc sald that 


journalism in the province had 


deteriorated in recent years. 
“When | started as a journal- 
ist ten years ago, francophone 


“Now more than 90 per cent 
of all private newspapers, radio 
stations and TV stations are 
chain-owned. Ken Thompson 
owns the most newspapers in 
Canada, maybe In the world. 
Fortunately, he won't interfere 
with independence. But what- 
ever editorial independence we 
have is at Thompson's and 
Conrad Black's pleasure.” 

However, Ross concluded 
that the state of Canadian 
journalism was “itself improv- 


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JOURNALISM 


LE CENTRE POUR LE 
rebate so 
D'ENQUETE 


“I'm not complacent about 
the future of newspapers,” he 
said. _ 

“Market research is believed 
by publishers, and market 
research is telling them that 
people want lighter content. | 
fear the eighties will be an era 
of bright news and boosterism. 

“We'll just have to hope that 
the poeple running the news- 
papers are going to maintain 
good news.” 

Marc Starowicz, founding 





reporters were playing a role in 
society. It came out in their 
articles that they thought there 
should be hospitals for poor 
people as well as rich people, 
and schools for everyone. They 
weren't ashamed of that,” he 
said. 

“Then the national question 
became the Issue, and things 
changed. Reporters can't let 
their beliefs out anymore. That 
spirit of doing something in 
society is gone.” 

In the anglophone media, 
speakers talked about the eff- 
ects of corporate concentration 
and. of journalism based on 
market research. 

“In 1970, 67 per cent of all 
private media outlets in Canada 
were owned by chains,” said 
Alexander ross, editor of Cana- 
dian Business, \: / 


ed”. 

Ross proposed that journal- 
ists direct some of the money 
from their pension funds into 
ownership of their newspapers. 


‘| fear the ’80s will be 
an era of bright news 
and boosterism.” 
EE 
He suggested that employee 
ownership would ensure the 
corporate concentration didn't 
distort newspapers. 

Allen Frizell, 
University professor, was less 


optimistic about the future of 
journalism in Canada. 


a Carleton. 


producer of CBC's “As It 
Happens” and “Sunday Morn- 
ing’, put the problem of 
Canadian journalism more 
bluntly. 

“We don't know what we're 
talking about," he said. 

The three- -day conference, 
attended by some 650 journal- 
ists, featured a number of 
media-related seminars. Topics 
included investigating provinc- 
ial legislatures, several semin- 
ars on the Quebec referendum, 
police reporting, television and 
radio journalism, energy cover- 
age, basic techniques, and the 
future of Canadian journalism. 

The CIJ is a two-year old 
organization devoted to the 
promotion of Investigative jour- 
promotion of investigative rep- 
orting among professional 
journalists. HeChirxeh ral trape 





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Ads may be placed through 
Sadie’s, ist floor Student 
Union Building, 9 a.m.5 
p.m. ’ 

McGill students: $2 per 
day. For 3 days $1.75, more 








summer, possibly longer. Pine Ave. 


across from the gyms. Call 286-1634. 

Sunny 4 1/2- sublet available May 1 - July 
31 - clean, spacious corner apt. - wood 
floors - new appliances - eal in kitchen - 
fireplace - laundry - near LaCité shopping 
+ Durocher above Prince Arthur - un- 
furnished - call 286-0549 - keep trying. 

One minute from campus! 6 1/2 available 
to sublet May 1, option to renew. $475. 
Includes parking. Bug free! Call 842-6958. 
Rooms to rent: available May 1 - Sept. 1. 
On Pine near the gym. Prices vary from 


Large, sunny, 1 1/2 sublet: June ist: 


August Jist. Lease renewable. Perfect 
location at corner of campus. Un- 
furnished. $172/month. Call 844-7509. 
KEEP TRYING! 


Sublet - Big 1 1/2 on University St: across 


from Rutherford Physics Bidg. Excellent 


location for summer school. Asking 
150.00 but could be talked down. Please 
Call 842-0637 or drop by 3643 University 
Fully Furnished - 2-bedroom apartment to 
sublet from May-August. Balcony and 
sunroof facility, Located on Stanley 
Street above Sherbrooke. For in- 


~ -Apartment to sublet. 2 1/2 May 1 to June 


30 with option to renew. On Jeanne 
Mance near Milton. $145/month 
negotlabla. 286-9398. 


Sublet 1 1/2 sunny, bright, with hardwood 
floors - $120/month. Call 286-0096. 


Furnished 1 1/2 available for sublet: May 
ist to August 3ist. 10 minutes from 
McGill. Washer and dryer in building. 
Grocery store around the corner. Located 
on Hutchison near Sherbrooke. TERMS 
NEGOTIABLE. Also a single bed for sale. 
Call 286-0938. 


Sublet: May 1st - August 31st. Large 1 1/2 
fully equipped & furnished wall-to-wall, 


room with balcony in apartment on Prince 
Authur near McGill. Large Kitchen, 


friendly roommates. Call Adam, 842-2446. 
Sublet 4 1/2 furnished plus pots and pans, 
etc. St- Marc: and - Lincoln. Rent 
negoliable. A nice place to spend the 
Help 4 1/2 to sublet. may 1s{ - Sept. 1st. 
On St. Urbain near Milton. Clean, 
spacious and furnished. Utilities will be 
paid for, $200/month. Call Michel, ou: 
9059. 

New 4 1/2 apariment, live minutes from 
campus. Only one previous renter, 





$100 - $200/month depending on size of Available May 1st - August 31st. Fur: 

than 3 days $1.50. rooms. Kitchen and TV room included. formation, call Kirk or Don at 284-0814. McGill owned, $158.00 nished. Rent negotiable, Option to renew. 

McGill Faculty and Staff: Call 288-6430. Rent negotiable. sis? Fantastic 1 12 to sublat. May 151: August Call 288-0159 or 842-0637. RE 

3.00 per day. To sublet until Aug. 31: large, bright room, Summer Apariment Wanted: Teacher on A Lee Fate De sot gel te s blet: available May 1-Aug 31 

ae My $3 50 d furnished, in nice old building. 10 minutes summer course requires bachelor or 1- Balcony for summer tanning. On with? option ‘ov renew tthe it 

others: $3. per cay. from McGill. $125/month everything in- bedroom apartment in McGill area from - Durocher, close to LaCité and gym. Durocher above Prince Arthur. Laundry in 
341—APT., ROOMS. HOUSING cluded. For more info call Francine at June 28/80 to August 10/80. Parking $150/month. Tel: 286-1404. Dan building. 5 minutes from McGill. ey 


Spacious and cheerful 4 1/2: Available for 


peted. Rent $185/month, but May will be 
paid. Call 286-0375. Keep trying. 


Sublet big, sunny 8.1/2 apartment, across 
from the gym. Semi-furnished, if you 
prefer. Very reasonable rent. Amazing 
deal, Call 288-6711. 








935-3178 alter.7 p.m. 
Apt. to sublet: roommate wanted to share 


COURSES: Monday & Wednesday nights: April 9-23, 


preferred but not necessary. Contact Bob 
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Tuesday & Thursday nights: April 15-29 
REGISTRATION: 3480 McTavish St., Room 433, April 8, 5-7 





pm. 844-0058 





Summer sublet 8 1/2 room apartment on 
Prince Arthur corner Hulchison. 












$370/month. (negotiable) 849-2566. 
Summer sublet: rooms available in a 










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summer sublet starting May 1 or July 1. lar $525/month for May, June, July and + 
: ge, furnished 4 1/2 on Summerhill Ave. AS RÉ P  — ‘ y furnished 7 1/2 from May to August, It's 
$260, near McGill. Also for sale: antique off Cote des Neiges. Available May 1st, Spacious 6 1/2 to sublet with option to August. Option to renew, Five bedrooms, huge and sunny and centrally located at 
desk, bureau, assorted rugs and other large kitchen. Call 842-2446, 9 y y 
‘ ‘ $135.00/month. Walking distance to renew on Durocher below Pine, bug Iree. 290 MICNON. Va 456 Pine Ave. W. (apt. 307). Call 286-0201 
goodies. 286-0188. Keep tryin (apt. 307) 
a tas AU LUE D bare McGill. Cal 953-5832. $400.00 per month. Available May 1st. Room for rent for summer. May, June, evenings. =] 
Summer sublet: available May 1 - Aug. 31 To sublet. From May 151 till August 31st. 2 Fumished ssublet) May = 1: Sept 1 July and August for $400, Large bright TES Px ge 26 | 
with option to renew the lease, or 2 apariment ideal for 2. Walking- Beautiful 11/2 apt. in modern bldg. ' 
Durocher above Prince Arthur. Laundry ir distance to campus (10 min.}, access to Balcony, carpet, free plants. Option to 
building. 5 minutes from McGill sauna, pool, and large balcony. Com: renew. Call 288-9659. 
$370/month (negotiable). 849-2566. pletely furnished for only $375.00, in- Carnet sunnyi2 19/02 Dorochar labore 
Summer sublet: rooms available in a cludes heat, hot water and water tax. Call ele Arthur (10 minutes from campus) The CHALLENGE of. Teaching 
tumished 7.112 (rom May to Aun: Ws huge SS-0882 for more information. FEES Available My 12 till August 31st. Lease 
and sunny and centrily located a Beautiful 4 1/2 to sudlet on Durocher near senewable™ Uinfianishea 1 bai (ON T car 
Pine Ave, West (apt. 307). Call 286-0201 Pine. Available May 1st. Rent negotiable. seted! Rent $185/month; but May va, as The ADVENTURE of the Outdoors 
evenings. Option to renew. Furnished or un- aid. Call 286-0375. Keeo Trying. - 
Summer sublet, 1585 Dr, Pentleld, no. 38. furnished. Please call 286-0970. SS Ra EE The FULFILLM ENT of Commitment 
Sunny, fully furnished 2 1/2 wittr rooltop Furnished spariment fo sublet: 6 12 - ed mat iting ee ret oy ist a 
terrace, Sublet May 1- Aug. 31 with option rooms (2 bedrooms and a study) near cecotlable Pole Pea pheets We are looking for people of vision and strength who > 
to renew, if desired. $175/month. Open for Loyola Campus in N.D.G. On major bus Sherbrooke. Call Jane or Nancy 286-0095. feel they have something to offer. young people. Our 
inspection Saturday and Sunday, April 5 routes. Sunny, equipped, Small balcony, hte eee he th idential schools off 
ree residential schools offer boys a highly structured 
&6,1-5p.m. easy parking. Heat and hot water in-. Quiet, clean 2 1/2 room apt. to sublet May - traditional educati led with icti d 
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1. Sunny 5 1/2 on Ourocher just below mid-May or 1st June. Prefer women or unfurnished; wall to wall; Prince Arthur demanding outdoor program of canoeing and snow- 
Pine. Excellent kitchen facilities. A steal woman with child. Phone between 5-8 pm. near University; $160.00 negotiable. Call shoeing. We need people of commitment who believe 
at $275.! (per month). Call 286-0229. 466-2083. Fae ene 11 pms 206: that young people should be challenged mentally, 
Furnished | sublet May © 1+, Sept 1, physically and spiritually. People who are willing to 
Beautiful 11/2 apt. in modern bidg. i oom { 
Balcony, carpet, free plants.’ Option tc ive, work and learn within the framework of a self 
renew. Call 288-9659. à supporting Christian community, ni, 
Large, sunny 21/2 on Durocher above Moen Writ 
Prince Arthur (10 mins. from campus). . rite “4, 7 
Available May 12th till Aug. 31st. Lease A 2 A R 
renewable. Unfurnished, but fully car- ‘ B TENDING COURSE The Minister 


Sunny, large 51/2 to sublet, close to 
McGill (University St.). May - Aug. option 
to renew, 288-7895. 


Beautiful, clean, sunny 4 1/2 on Durocher 
above Prince Arthur. Sublet from May 1st 
through summer. All furnished and in 
really beautiful condition. 286-1640. 


Students” Society Applications 


“are hereby called for the following positions; 


CHAIRPERSON VICE-CHAIRPERSON 
STUDENTS’ SOCIETY (PUBLICITY) 


COMMITTEE TO AID McGILL PROGRAM BOARD 
SOUTHEAST ASIA The student holding this position will assemble a 


This committee, set up recently by Students’ committee to put into effect new innovative means 
Chanel gail Bo (ean eRe atthe: present of publicizing Program Board events to the McGill 


situation in Southeast, Asia and plan several events and Montreal communities. 


aimed at informing the McGill community on these 
matters, The chairperson will coordinate the CHAIRPERSON 
ACTIVITIES NIGHT 


activities of this Committee. 
Activities Night is traditionally held during the 


VICE-CHAIRPERSON second week of classes in September cach year, This 
(PUBLICITY) evening event allows the more than 100 student 

À groups at McGill to inform students about these 
WELCOME WEEK 


groups and to recruit new members. The 
The student holding this position will be reponsible Chairperson must appoint students to the 
for ensuring that all Welcome Week activities are 


organizing committee to contact student groups 
properly publicized in accordance with budgets well in advance and to take care of publicity, 
available. 


entertainment, etc, = 
NOTE: 


All of the above positions are considered voluntary, 
Joint applications will be accepted from not more 
than two (2) students for any one (1) position, 

All applications will be treated confidentially and 
will be reviewed by the Students’ Society McLean, Secretary, in the General Office NO 
Nominating Committee. The best qualified LATER THAN 4:30 PM, TUESDAY, APRIL 8th, 
candidates will likely be interviewed by the 1980. 

Committee, 









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Wine Appreciation throughout the summer. Bartending 
courses until mid-August. Phone now and reserve your name 
for our summer registration lists or leave your name and 
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by Françoise Girard < | 

The conflict between the McGill 
Faculty Union and the McGill 
Association of University Teachers Is 
one of both ideology and practical 
concerns. Its result may be the onset of 
academic unionization at McGill much 
sooner than expected. 

On September 28th, 1979, MFU 
charged the MAUT with violating the 
Quebec Labour Code. 

The case Is based on a petition to the 
court to dissolve the MAUT. Among the 
charges entered in the province's 
labour court were that the MAUT has 
tried to help McGill: University un- 
dermine the activities of the MFU “by 
agreeing to be dominated by an em- 


“People in power are all 
MAUT members and strongly 
supporting it.” 


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| ployer, McGill’ and by “acting as an 


accomplice in the manoeuvers of 
McGill aimed at preventing the 
unionization of McGill employees." 

The MFU charged: the MAUT with 
allowing itself to be favoured by the 
University as the ‘sole employee 
association to negotiate salaries of 
academic employees at McGill.” 

The MAUT was also charged with 
accepting financial assistance from the 


| [university in the form of-an 80 per cent 


discount on internal mail, a discount 
which is not given to other university 
organizations, according to the MFU. 
The MAUT's alleged agreement with 
McGill stipulating that all faculty 
employees’ automatically become 
members of the MAUT unless they 
notify the association otherwise they 
also cited as being contrary to Quebec 
labour law. Under 
agreement dues for the MAUT are 
the 
university from the paychecks of MAUT 
members. The MFU charged that the 
administration refused to provide the 


the alleged 


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same service to the McGill Faculty 
Union. 


The MFU completed the presentation 


of evidence for its case on February 7th. 
In presenting its case, the MFU called 
22 witnesses who testified before the 
court and were cross-examined by the 
MAUT and university attorneys. The 
university has taken part In the 
proceedings since it may be affected by 
the outcome of the trial because of a 
related case that is pending against it 
for alleged violations of the Labour 
Code. 

The MAUT presented its evidence last 
Thursday and Friday. The written 
argument should soon be presented by 
the court by both parties. 

The ideological conflict between the 
MAUT and the MFU is fairly obvious. 

The MAUT was founded in the early 
'50s. According to vice-principal Leo 
Yaffe, the goals of the MAUT were 
“staff involvement in the operation of 
the university and raising the standards 
of employment of the academics.” At 
that time, the academic salaries at 
McGill were “absolutely disgraceful” 
and the contribution of the academics 
to the running of the University was not 
very important. In this sense, the MAUT 
was “one of the pioneers in this field, in 
university life in Canada,"-agcording to 
Yaffe. 

The MAUT believes that McGill being 
an academic institution, it should be 
run by the academics. This is 
“collegiality.” 
collegiality to be a civilized way of 
discussion and does not 
unionization is necessary at McGill. 
Unionization will create an atmosphere 
of confrontation and antagonism, the 


‘MAUT told the Daily in an interview last 


term. 

_ The MFU holds the exactly opposite 
view. According to its president, Allen 
Fenichel, ‘McGill has become lawless” 
and collegiality is ‘an illusion of par- 
ticipation.” “With unionization, we will 
have a clear set of rules under which 
staff and administration relations can 


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function,” says Sid Ingerman of the 


. MFU. 


The MFU was founded in the late ‘60s, 
at a time when government budget cuts 
were Starting to hit Quebec universities. 
Since then, all other universities in 
Quebec except Concordia have 
unionized. Because of the budget cuts, 
faculty members at these universities 
saw the need to protect their job 
security and academic standards within 
their institution. 

The opposition between the MAUT 
and MFU is therefore quite clear. While 
the MFU members more or less believe 
unionization to be inevitable, the MAUT 
claims that 80 per cent of faculty at 
McGill sees no neéd to unionize. 

In court, the MFU has brought 


evidence to support its claims that the 


MAUT is trying to hinder them. Such 
evidence includes examples of 
harassment of some MFU executives by 
the administration, and Principal 
Johnston's well-known stand against 
unionization and accreditation at 
McGill. 


The MFU also presented letters 


The MFU charges that the ad- 
ministration refuses to pro: 
vide it with the same services 
as MAUT. 


signed by MAUT executives, and stating 
that “MAUT is recognized by the ad- 
ministration as the representative of the 
Faculty” and that ‘‘amongst the ac- 
complishments of MAUT on behalf of 
the professional teaching staff in the 
last few years are’ the following: 


negotiation with the administration for 


salary increments.” 

The MFU argues the MAUT has no 
right to negotiate salaries with the 
administration, as it is not an ac- 
credited union. | 


For its part, MAUT counters this 





?\Professors i in court over unionization 





argument by explaining that it was not 
aware of the legal implications of 
certain words prior to the onset of the 
court case, and that these 
“negotiations” were only discussions 
and recommendations to the Board of 
Governors. 

According to Allen Fenichel of the 
MFU, a certain environment is created 
at McGill if the MAUT is able to par- 
ticipate in the various university 
committees, with the administration, in 
terms of solidifying the notion that they 
are the recognized organization on 
campus. 

“It puts the MFU in a very awkward 
position,” said Fenichel in court. 

Ingerman agrees: “We find ourselves 
in a situation where the people in power 
are MAUT members and are all strongly 
supporting it” (the MAUT). 

So far, the MFU members are 
satisfied with the proceedings in court. 
lf they win, the MAUT will be dissolved. 
According to Ingerman, ‘this would 
hopefully create conditions in which a 
majority of staff members would seek 
and obtain a collective bargaining 
organization.” Whether or not that 


‘organization would be the MFU as such | 


is not that important to Ingerman. 


“All that the MFU wants is a 
collective agreement at McGill,” he 
says.‘ À 


If they lose, Ingerman thinks the MFU 
members will keep on going with 
basically the same strategy. The MFU 
hopes the decision will be rendered in 
early summer. 

This trial is therefore especially 
important for the McGill community in 
that it could bring about unionization at 
McGill much faster than observers have 
predicted. 

In view of the proposed budget cuts 
and of the administration's attitude | 
during the recent support workers’ 
strike, some believe unionization Is 
the only way to ensure job security and 
to maintain the academic standards | 
that have given McGill its name. 


by Denis Gascon 
Accusations of antidemoc- 
ratism which led to the 
“ourge’ of three Workers 
Communist Party (WCP)- 
sympathizers from the execu- 
tive of l'Association Nationale 
des Etudiants du Québec 
(ANEQ): two weeks ago were 
all totally. unfounded, says 


dismissed secretary of exter- 


nal affairs André Rémillard. © 

. “An executive which calls 
for seven national meetings 
within 10 months of power is 
nelther antidemocratic nor 
acting without consulting Its 
basis," he sald in a Dally 
interview. 

- The three members, André 
Chabot, Jean Latraverse and 
Rémillard were dismissed by 
a 2 to 1 majority membership 
vote because “they suppress- 
ed dissident ideas, took unila- 


* teral positions, did not consult 


students and were putting 
their political line before 
ANEQ and student interests.” 

Responding officially to the 
charges for the first time In 
two weeks, Rémillard said the 
executive had always acted 
on mandates. . 

“Of course, sometimes; we 


put forward orientations not 


yet ratified by general assem- 


blies, but that brings up the 


question of the conception of 
democracy in ANEQ. Does 


democracy mean that the 


direction gives some orientat- 


‘lon or that it waits passively 


for general assemblies to vote 
mandates? | think the second 
one Is Impossible in practice,” 
sald Rémillard. 

While they recognize there 
was an important gap between 
the executive and the memb- 
ership, the three dismissed 
executives sald in a letter 


recently published, that they 
were always defending “links 
between ANEQ and the stud- 
ents”.k 


They say, contrary to the - 


allegations in the motion of 
non-confidence, they had 
mandates from the congress- 
es to support the CEGEP 
employees strike and law 62. 
The congress had given man- 
dates “to support the Common 
Front." 

* Rémillard presented two 
methods of establishing a 
national direction: one which 
draws perspectives and esta- 
blishes a consensus out of 


students’ Ideas to propose a 


direction, and another one 
where the ‘executives bring up 
what they think Is good and 
seek students’ support and 
approval before implementing 
it. When asked about - the 
balance between the two 


April 2, 1980 


conceptions, Rémillard did not 
seem to know where to draw 
the line. 

Rémillard feels the dismis- 
sal was imbued with “anti- 
communism" and was “a 
refined witch hunt”. 

“Those who dismissed us 
did so not because we did not 
consult students but rather 
because they disagreed with 
our decisions,” he said. 

Asked to explain why 15 
Institutions voted for the mot- 
lon if all the accusations were 
unfounded, Rémillard seemed 
confused about whether anti- 
communism or a willingness 
to resolve ANEQ problems 
was the reason for the expul- 
sion. 

In light of the fact that it was 
the third motion calling for the 
executive dismissal this year, 
Rémillard said the executive 
had made errors. He sald their 


Purged ANEQ members were not anti-democrats 


position on RAEU was wrong 
and that they should have : 
pushed for a strong RAEU ina 
strong ANEQ and gone beyond 
their divergences with RAEU 
leaders rather than criticize 
their “scissionist position”. 

Rémillard also admitted err- 
ors in the “loans and bursaries 
struggle" and ANEQ’s lack of 
consideration for: any other 
issue, 

Rémillard criticized new se- 
cretary-general Jacques 
Beaupré for some of his 
policies and statements. 

“He refused to denounce 
the addition 6f a mandatory 
mathematics course to CEG- 
EP program or to present 
himself as the ANEQ secre- 
tary-general because “stud- 
ents were not ready for It.” 
This goes against ANEQ's role . 


* of Information and organiza- 


tion,” he sald. 


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Education cutbacks: 


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by Rick Boychuk 

Like the driver of a car approaching a 
steep drop in the road the Quebec 
government is gingerly applying the 
brakes to university spending. Reluc- 
tant as they might be to retard the 
‘rattrapage’ in education spending 
Quebec has pursued since 1961, it is 
clear the government believes social 
‘ service spending must be arrested. 

They are in good company: virtually 
every other provincial government has 
begun hacking away at budgets for 
post-secondary institutions. But in this 
* rush to fiscal equilibrium, some of the 
losers ought to be identified. In 
Quebec's case, historical circumstance 
dictates that the first victims of this 


causal austerity program will be the . 


‘lower classes, and more specifically, 
the francophone lower classes. 

It seems an irony indeed to be ac- 
cusing the Parti Quebecois of helping 
to perpetuate the historical in qualities 
‘that have existed between the fran- 
cophones and anglophones of Quebec. 
Yet their policy of cutbacks will do just 
that. The third report of the Commission 
d'étude sur les Universités (CEU) 
suggests this will be the end result of 
systematic university budget cuts. The 
report’s authors argued that despite 


almost 20 years of expansion of: 


Quebec's universities, la belle province 
is still far behind other provinces, most 
notably Ontario, in per capita post- 
educational funding. In fact, they 
showed that “compared to Ontario, the 
percentage of Quebec 18-24 year-olds 
with BAS and first professional 
diplomas has fallen off between 1971 
and '76: from 4.5 per cent (compared to 
Ontarlo’s 5.2 per cent) in 1971 to 3.9 per 
cent (compared to Ontario's 7.4 per 
cent) in 1976." 


Although part of the responsibility for 
this statistical shortfall can be at- 
tributed to demographics (a baby boom 
bulge in those years) history and 
economics are at work here as well. And 
to understand these social forces we 
must first examine the composition of 
Quebec’s student population and how it 
has changed in the last decade. 

In linguistic terms, 5.29 per cent of 
the francophone community is 
presently receiving a university 
education as opposed to 13.48 per cent 
of the anglo community. The Quebec 
anglophone community has a higher 
percentage of university graduates than 
any other group in Canada. 

In socio-economic terms the CEU 
report shows that although the student 
body now represents a wider range of 
social classes there are still glaring 
inequalities, For example they argue 
Statistically that children of 
professionals are four times more likely 
to end up at university than the children 
of farmers. They note it is the newer 
universities (U de Sherbrooke and 


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Quebec universities as opposed to 


. 159,222. in Ontario universities and 


78,124 part-time students in Quebec as 
opposed to 79,005 part-time students in 
Ontario. 
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There is but one clear conclusion one 
can draw from these statistics. 
Although the CEU authors note that 50 
per cent of Quebec university students 
come from families with low incomes 
and 50 per cent have parents who only 
reached grade 11, the fact is that 
children of the lower classes are en- 
tering university almost in spite of the 
government rather than because of it. 
Increasingly, students are choosing to 
study part-time for the simple reason 
that they cannot afford to study full- 


revealed that 48.7 per cent of Quebec 
Students hold down a job during the 
school year. The survey further shows 
that 33.2 per cent of full-time students 
and 89.1 per cent part-time students 
hold jobs during the school year. 

Statistics regarding who receives 
financial ald in the form of loans and 
bursaries show why students are 
working their way through university. 
The CEU report says 65.6 per cent of all 
students in Quebec do not receive any 
financial aid and of those who receive 
aid, 11.3 per cent are given less than 
$500. When the aid figures are broken 
down by father’s occupation we see 
that 71.6 per cent of students whose 
fathers are blue or white collar workers 
do not receive any aid while only 49.3 
per cent of the students whose fathers 
are middie or upper management 
executives do not receive government 
financial aid. 

Students attending McGill, however, 
are more likely to receive financial help 
than students elsewhere. Besides 
provincial money McGill has private 
endowments which it dispenses to 
needy students in the form of loans and 
bursaries. McGill Student Aid director 
Judy Stymest says the university “gives 
out a considerable amount.” 

“Our aid program has doubled over 
the last ten years. Donations have been 
on the rise.” 

Stymest says in 1972/73 almost 2,000 
McGill students were receiving money 
from the province. That number has not 
changed although the amounts being 
given have increased. She says that the 
Quebec government student aid 
program is one of the best in the 
country. But slowly cutbacks are being 
introduced. Stymest says the govern- 
ment has been increasing the size of 
the loan given and decreasing the 
amount of the bursary. 


When push comes to squeeze 
It would be difficult to fault the 
Quebec government for its education 
funding policies during the '70s. The 
middie and lower classes have at least 
seen the inside of Quebec universities. 
The ylower classes, in particular, are 


represented in all the schools. But their, 


toe-hold is a tenuous one. By and large 
they are part-time students, do not 
receive financial aid and are fran- 
cophone. When the budget cuts are 
introduced, it will be these very 
students who are once again frozen out. 
An increase in tuition costs, a further 
tightening of the loans and bursaries 
program, a hike in residence fees (as is 
being proposed at U de M) or a dozen 
other such austerity measures could 
force ‘these students out of school. 
Considering that only 5.29 per cent of 
Quebec francophones are now 
receiving a university education (the 


Canadian average is about 10 per cent) 


it would seem sheer folly to introduce 
policies which would further reduce this 
figure. Yet it is happening. 

“We can see the government is 
planning cutbacks from a report tabled 
in the National Assembly last May. In 
the report they accept as a goal for the 
year 2000 the level of education 
spending attained by Ontario in 1976" 
says McGill professor and Federation 
des associations des professeurs des 
universities du Québec (FAPUQ) 
president Jean-Louis Roy. 

“The government believes that in the 
future a smaller population will be in- 
terested in going to university and they 
don’t want FD build institutions that will 
not be used. 

“But the methodology they used in 
the study was totally demolished by the 
CEU. The CEU pointed out that the 
government was not taking into ac- 
count the fact that half the student 
body is now part-time. And they are still 
basing their statistics on students 
between the ages of 18- and 24. But this 
changing,” says Roy. 

His sentiments are echoed by FAPUQ 
executive-director Rene Serge 
Larouche. 

“The government is very prudent. The 
general spirit of their proposals is to 
base future post-secondary funding on 
per capita figures—like the 1976 On- 
tario expenditures. But the government 
is not saying exactly what is to be cut. 
They are increasing some things and 
cutting others—all very cleverly. 

“| think there will continue to be 
cutbacks in higher education spending 
all over the occidental world because of 
the oil crisis. But is isn't fair for the 


francophone universities. The cutbacks. 












Level of education 


0 to 8 years 


secondary education 
partially completed or completed 


post-secondary (CEGEP) : 
partially completed 


post-secondary 
(CEGEP) graduate 


university diploma 
total 


Source: CEU report III 








April 2, 1980 


Unemployment rates in 
Quebec in 1977 by age 
and level of education 


are beginning at a time when the 


-development of Quebec's institutions 


of higher education, which was begun 
in 1961, is not yet complete. The anglo 
universities in Quebec still produce far 
more graduates than all the fran- 
cophone universities.” 

The CEU report is even more critical 
of the policy of linking university growth 
to economic fluctuations. The authors. 
argue that individuals with more 
education have more employment 
opportunities. An education offers 
flexibility and mobility. 

The authors also scoff at the notion 
of declining enrollments. First, they 
say, Quebec has offered only a small 
proportion of its population a university 
education. There is no lack of ap- 
plicants. And second, entrance 
requirements currently in use are nota 
fair judge of an individual's ability. The 
doors could be opened wider than they 
presently are, they suggest. ; 

The descent has begun. Government 
officials obviously perceive the road to 
be steep and a long way to the bottom. 
Policy prescription being offered by 
Quebec City is to lean heavily on the 
brake; to cutback education funding. In 
the short run it may be prudent 
economic management. But the long 
run social consequences are far more 
crucial. Quebec will not bankrupt itself 
by continuing the present level of 
post-secondary educational funding. To 
cut back cn this funding, however, 
would create a legacy that would long 
be remembered, for it is a policy that 
would touch the lives of many individ- 
uals. And specifically, it would affect 
the lives of those individuals who have 
limited opportunities in the first place. 


Age 
15-24 25 and all ages 
over 
25.7% 9,5% 10.6% 
18.9% 7.8% 11.9% 

\ 16.5% 6.9% 11.4% 
12.0% 5.5% 7.3% 
sa ° 3.6% 4,3% 
17.8% 7.5% 10,3% 


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by Heather Tisdale 
The school year 1979/80 saw the 


Canadian university student continue — 


the fight against fee increases and 
budget cutbacks. But what may be more 
important is the increase in social 
awareness which seemed to spread 
across Canadian university campuses. 
Cutbacks 

Money was on the mind of every 
budget-conscious student. And with the 
beginning of a new decade, it does not 
appear that the financial situation will 
improve, Bill Tieleman, a CUP 
(Canadian University Press) staffer, 
wrote: “The writing was on the wall for 
years but only now are the full effects of 
continuous education funding cutbacks 


‘ being felt.” 


A barrage of statistics reaffirms the 
impression that higher education is 
indeed a luxury item. 

For instance: 
ethe average 


tuition at the 


University of Toronto will be 16.5 per- 


cent more than the present charge of 
$710 

e some tuition fée increases at UofT 
next year could go as high as 53 per 
cent of the present charge 

@ in Alberta there will be a probable lee 
increase of 10 per cent 

@ in 1978/79 Manitoban students faced 


a 20 per cent increase in tuition and this. | 


year they were forced to pay an ad- 
ditional six per cent 

e at Simon Fraser University the Board 
of Governors approved a 49 per cent 
rent increase over two years for student 
residences 


e and at McGill the administration is 


“Planning for a Smaller University." 

Many universities have been forced 
to‘cut support staff and faculty. Foreign 
students may become an endangered 
species because all but three provinces 
have differential tuition fees and are 
charging more to foreign students. 

The reaction to mounting costs and 
cutbacks ranged from resignation (in 


more senses than one — at York 


University the dean of Fine Arts 
resigned over cutbacks) to outright 
‘protest. 

The Ontario Federation of Students 
(OFS) was particularly active ‘in 
protesting increases and cutbacks. In 
the fall the organization launched a 
campaign called ‘Prescription for a 
higher education,” in which 40,000 post 


cards were distributed to universities — 


and colleges across the province and 
were sent In by students to the 
provincial government. 

In February a group of U of T students 
occupied the office of President James 
Ham, and at Laurentian University. in 
March there was a sit-in staged by some 


- 50 students. In Ontario protest of this 


sort was often aimed not only at the 
university but at the province's Ministry 
of Education as well. 


Protests over money have not yet. 
_ ended for the year. Students in Ontario . 
and Alberta are planning to march on. 


thelr provincial legislatures. 

What has made this year different 
from others is a general increase in 
awareness of the world beyond the 


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confines of the campus. It would be 
safe to say that the average student 
was becoming more left-leaning in his 
or her attitudes. 

Not that this happened overnight; 
this was the year that these attitudes 
were manifested in various forms of 
action. 

Divestment 
The issue of Canadian universities’ 


at campuses 


across Canada 











investments in South Africa (either 
direct or indirect) was a particularly 
dynamic one. Student groups exerted 
pressure on their administrations to 


, withdraw their funds from banks which 


lent money to the racist regime. 

A vigorous student campaign at 
Trent University resulted in that 
university’s Senate deciding to with- 
draw money from banks which blan- 


,, April 2, 1980 


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tantly lent money to South Africa with 
the proviso that they would patronize 
banks that purported to be examining 
the issue. 

Students at Dalhousie University 
were asked to boycott the Bank of 
Commerce over its South African 
connections. And at McGill there was 
significant student support for the 
South Africa Committee which spon- 
sored information sessions and 
presented a petition to the Board of 
Governors requesting divestment. 

There was also support at some 
universities for Nicaragua's literacy 
campaign. 

A cursory glance at university 
newspapers reveals a growing interest 
in international issues. 

Engineers in trouble 

Feminist consciousness manifested . 
itself in action against the most obvious 
form of campus sexism — certain 
engineering activities and publications. 

A special committee was set up, at 
the University of Windsor to investigate 
the engineering students’ society 
newspaper. 

Engineers at the University of British 
Columbia may have seen the last of 
their Lady Godiva ride and Red Rag 
newspaper. The administration was ‘ 
forced to defend the engineers’ ac- 
tivities to a human rights branch in- 
vestigation, at which a spokesperson 
said: “It would seem that at UBC racism 
is out but sexism is perfectly ac- 
ceptable.” 

The issue of sexual harassment is 
being studied on various campuses, 
and will probably be more highly 
publicized next year. 

But there is still a long way to go 
when this year’s National Union of 
Students (NUS) convention passes a 
declaration of the rights of the female 
Student. : 

Nuclear power 

There was universal student concern 
about environmental issues such as 
acid rain and nuclear power. Awareness 
of pollution begins on campus too. In 
September it was observed that 
noticeably high levels of radiation had 
leaked undetected into a University of 
British Columbia building. It was found 
that Concordia University's neutron 
generator had been leaking neutron 
particles into the basement of a cam- 
pus building since 1976. 

Canadian universities are now under 
scrutiny for lax procedures in allowing 
unsafe amounts of radioactive wastes 
on campus. 

Students are now less likely to accept 
injustice as they were in the heyday of 
‘70s apathy. Students at the Université 
de Montréal are still on strike over 
various issues. Chinese students. are 
planning legal action against the CTV 
network for alleged distortion of facts 
on a show about foreign students. 

Apathy at McGill University officially 
came to an end this winter when sup- 
port workers went on strike. Many 
students rallied to their defence via a 
strike support committee, and hundreds 
of students boycotted classes. 


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and Marc Tessier:Lavigne: 


On November. 26, 1961, .the 


Grunenthal drug -firm= withdrew. Its 
popular sleeping pill containing 
thalidomide from the market: Before 
thalidomide was withdrawn, the 
chemical produced deformities in 6,000 
infants in West Germany alone, In the 
two decades that’ have” passed since 
the thalidomide catastrophe, govern- 
ments in North America have monitored 
the drug Industry's research much more 
carefully. In 1973, the :Canadian 
government, In conjunction with the US 
government, published a detailed, 183- 
page set of drug test guidelines: 
Despite compliance to these new 
regulations, the drug industry on 
several occasions has. been found 
guilty of abuses and fraudulent prac- 


tices In attempts to circumvent these © 


stringent “requirements, especially 
when sizeable profits are at stake. 


The elaborate and expensive: drug : 


testing procedure begins with: a 
thorough pharmacological assessment 


of the drug: If the effectiveness study 


gives promising results, the company 


will begin testing the drug on laboratory: 


animals, usually dogs and rats. | 


The first test procedure determines . 
fhe acute toxicity of the drug, or in other. 


words the amount of the drug which is 
lethal. ‘a 

Secondly, the researchers check for 
sub-acute toxicity by adding the drug to 


“the animals’ diet during a 90-day period 


and observing any physiological 
changes. Some. the.animals are then 
killed and thoroughly examined, while 


others are kept alive and put on a 


normal diet, to determine whether any 
side. effects which appeared in the 


-animals are permanent. 


Over an 18-year. period, 
the use of the drug 
phenformin resulted in a 
significant number of 
fatalities in the U.S. 


The third step of the procedure tests 
whether low dosages of the drug over 
long periods of time are toxic to the 
animal. The effects of the drug on three 
generations of animals ‘are studied. 
These three sets of experiments require 


-some two years for completion and cost 


an estimated $500,000. On the average 
only one or two per cent Of all drugs 
tested will pass these tests. - 

If the - studies : reveal’ no: major 


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then present the toxicity results‘to the 
Health Protection Branch in Canada or, 
the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 
in the United States. If the toxicity data 
meet the requirements, and if the 
company can provide evidence of the 
drug's potential benefit, the health 
protection branch will grant the com- 
pany permission to test the drug on 


healthy human volunteers. The tests. 
study the kinetics of. the: interaction 


and are 
to consenting 


between—drug and body, 
eventually applied 
patients. $ 

lf the new drug produces no major 
side effects in the patients, and if it 
proves more effective In alleviating the 
condition than other drugs already on 
the market, the drug company: may 
begin limited distribution of the drug to 
general practitioners. After this :côm- 
plex risk/benefit analysis, the drug firm 
finally puts the drug out onto the 


‘market. 


Despite these elaborate . safety 
precautions, unsafe drugs continue to 
appear on the ‘market. Last November 
the. National Cancer 
nounced that corticosteroid drugs used 
in the treatment of cancer and arthritis 


-had been linked to a new strain of 


pneumonia. In March 1978, Japanese 


- courts awarded $1.1 million in damages : 
-to-16 people who had’ taken an anti- 
--diarrhetic drug called quinoform which 


resulted In paralysis. The drug allegedly 
affected 11,000 Japanese before its ban 
in 1970. Ciba-Geigy, one of the phar- 


maceutical Companies that marketed: 


quinoform, suffered a further setback in 
1977 when the American government 
ordered phenformin, a prescription drug 
used by some 385,000 diabetics, off the. 


‘market. Over. an 18-year period. the 


bload disorder it produced resulted in 
more than 100 fatalities inthe U.S. | 
The first reason for such failures is 
the danger .inherent in all drugs; the 
safety standards In the industry are not 
always to blame. Animal tests can only 
approximate how a drug will affect 
humans. Indeed, some drug's side ef. 
fects ‘may not manifest themselves 
even during the testing of humans. Car- 
cinogens ‘in particular may escape 
detection since cancer can take up to 
25 years to appear. © ; 
-Risk/benefit analysis comes into play 


at this stage to aid in deciding whether 


a drug's side effects are worse than the 
condition it cures. An example of sucha 


problem arose in May 1979 when the 


National Cancer Institute (NCI) reported 


. that reserpine, a drug used. to lower 
high blood presure, caused cancer: FDA 


and NCI officials agreed that the short 
term benefits of the drug outweighed 
the possibilities that it could produce 
cancer. over the long term. Reserpine Is 


: stillon the market; the final decision is 


left to:the. consumer, as it is with birth- 


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of unsafe drugs is the industry's need 


for profit. « = ARE 4: 

- According to Samuel Epstein of the 
School - of Public Health of: the 
University of Illinois, the drug industry 
has produced inadequate, biased and 
manipulated ‘data, and has even gone 


‘as. far as*.destroying compromising 
‘data. The greatest problem: is . that 


almost all the risk/benefit analyses from 
which-regulatory decisions are made 


‘are produced and interpreted by the 


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fustry needs high dose monitoring 


industry itself or by universities and 
commercial laboratories under contract 
to industry. ; 

This high degree of self-regulation 
has resulted in low quality-studies. In 
1967, the FDA Commissioner Herbert 
Ley complained that “almost half of the 
petitions originally submitted to the 
Food and Drug Administration have 
been incomplete and, therefore, have 
required subsequent. supplementation, 
amendment, withdrawal, or denial.” : 

Epstein, in his recent study “The 
politics of cancer,” reveals the faults In 
design and performance of car- 
cinogenicity tests: 

1) premature termination of ex- 
periments (either intentionally or 
because animals are submitted to 
excess doses) before cancers can 
develop | | Li 
.2) inadequate monitoring of the in-: 
tended procedures 

3) “alteration,: falsification and even 
destruction of records.” ss 


“There are no safe drugs. 
There are only safe 
dosages.” | 
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Epstein's conclusions have been 
verified by studies from a number of US 
agencies, in particular those of the 
Environmental Protective Agency (EPA) 
and the carcinogenicity panel of the 
Mark Commission on Pesticides. In 

. 1969, this panel reviewed 17 industrially : 
sponsored studies on the the car- 
cinogenicity of DDT and concluded that 

. 14 of those studies were."'so inherently 
‘defective as to preclude any possible 
determination of carcinogenicity.” 

But beyond ‘mere negligence, or the 
production of inadequate data, industry 
has also indulged in. fraudulent 
manipulation of data. Epstein cites the 
cases of the drug Dornwall, for which 
the Wallace and Tienan Company were 
found gullty of submitting false data, 
and the drug MER/29 for which officials 
of the Richardson-Merrill Company 
were-criminally convicted. The drug 
Penalba was removed from the market 
in 1968 after an FDA inspector. ac- 
cidentally discovered ‘hidden in- 
formation proving its lack of efficacy as 


compared with its individual 
ingredients. | 
More. recently, in 1977, Industrial 


Biotest Labs'of Illinois, faced with a US 
governmental investigation, destroyed 

iles dealing with toxicological and 
carcinogenicity tests of thousands of 
federally approved products including 
drugs, food additives, pesticides and 
‘industrial chemicals. Officials sub- 
sequently admitted having ordered this 
destruction of documents. 

In response to such occurrence, 
governments have set out to ensure the 
quality control of the data used in 
regulation. In the US in 1977, Congress 
allocated $16.6 million to the FDA for 
this purpose. The industry has respond- 
ed by Increasing its testing capacities, 
a move that brings new fears to critics. 
They believe the problem of data 
misrepresentation. and abuse can be 
solved only by creating independent 
organizations to form what Epstein 
calls a “neutral buffer zone” between 

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~ Public health: a social approach 


“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure”’ states the well-known 
adage. Yet'in a day when massive oil spills are blackening our shores, in- 


‘dustrial smokestacks are blackening our skies, and nicotine and’ tar are : 


blackening our lungs, it becomes increasingly evident that man has forgotten 
the value of preventing health hazards before they appear. / 3 
Industry has a long record of falling to take preventive safety - measures 
until the damage has been done. As for government, it has largely failed in its 
responsibility to regulate industrial safety. A Nader report on occupational 
disease In industry reveals that the Massachusetts government uncovered | 
24,845 violations of the safety laws in 1968, an overwhelming indictment of 
industry's contempt for health codes. Furthermore, the state, in mockery of 
its own laws, assessed a mere 12 fines for these violations. The report also . 


declares that in 1968 the Delaware government employed only one safety 


inspector for-every 207,000 workers—a very dangerous form of tokenism 


‘indeed. 


At the heart of the problem lies government's heavy rellance on 


retrospective curative measures as opposed to forward looking preventive 


measures tq solve problems. Such policies prevent the development of 
foresight necessary to combat nascent dangers to the health of the society. 
An example of government's reluctance to take safety precautions before : 


, absolutely necessary recently occurred‘in Ontario, where it was found that: 


many older buildings contain large quantities of asbestos — a known car- 
cinogen. Instead of ordering the removal of the asbestos from all buildings, 
the Ontario government plans to remove it from schools only. And It com- 
plains that the price tag, of well under one million dollars, Is too high: 
The public has come to know this slipshod brand of government under the 
euphemistic name of “crisis management! — a system of government ' 
delivering exactly what It promises, management of crises, rather than their - 
outright prevention. ; (Se 
-1n"1969, a journalist discovered that 200 children inhabiting American 
slums die each year. of lead poisoning, caused by eating flaking paint: off 


- tenement.walls, Although the discovery prompted a number of investigations 
Into lead toxicity, it failed to initiate any investigations into the social causes. 


of these deaths. This example demonstrates government's unbalanced 
approach to the tackling of health hazards. 


“If industry and government cannot, or refuse to cope-adequately with 


public health hazards, impetus for drastic changes obviously must originate 
from outside these two spheres. However, to criticize government and in- 
dustry as the sole two groups which deal inadequately with health hazards 
would be to vastly underestimate the scope of the problem. The public as well 
is guilty of refusing to swallow mildly unpleasant medicine today to prevent 
tomorrow's ills. ~~ LS, | 

The products of science have helped to create this unsettling trend of 


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fit motive causes real problems 


: public unconcern for health. In 1977, American doctors filled 120 million. 
prescriptions for tranquilizers and sleeping pills. As society increases its 


dependence on these chemicals to relieve stress, it loses its desire to change 
the social institutions which created the stress in the first place. Thus, 
society is leaning on science as a crutch to relieve its aches and pains. in- 
stead of confronting the problems which are crippling it. à 

A similar pattern of rellance on scientific cures has led to a lack of simple 


Preventive measures from being taken against the two leading causes of 


death in North America — cancer and heart disease. 


Governments haye spent over $10 billion in the last two decades on ” 


medical research on cancer. At the same time, the US government in 1979 
spent only.$6 million on its anti-smoking campaign.’ Yet is it not common 
sense to fight a medical illness whose causes are largely social by taking 
preventive social measures? Certainly, scientific cures of cancer would be a 


great boon to mankind, but.not if the scientific search for these cures jm: 
-pinges on the budgeting of equally valuable social programs to prevent 


cancer. > : : 
Similarly, heart disease is a medical syndrome whose causes are largely 


Social. The high-pressure, backstabbing North American way of life and a 


public disdain for exercise undoubtedly account for. the fact that: heart 
disease is the leading cause of death in North America. Fortunately, both the 
public and government have started to respond to these realities — the 
public by growing disillusioned with the “corporate meat grinder" and the 
government by. Initiating public. fitness campaigns. The workability of social 
programs to prevent iliness is/evidenced by the great success of Par- 
ticipaction, which will probably one day prevent as many heart illnesses as 
the medical profession cures. eset ASS 


It is imperative that-society does not view medical research as a 


… miraculous panacea. The intrinsic value of such research should not be 
- underestimated, But man:can more immediately improve his chances for 
survival by first realizing that social problems account for many of his 


illnesses, and then taking appropriate social action. | 

The public must gain the motivation to stop abusing science as a con- 
venient crutch. It must take a stand that will force industry to concern itself 
more greatly with worker health, and cause government to renounce its 
myopic distortion of that old adage to read “an ounce of cure is worth a 
pound of prevention.” : 

“Social‘medicine” often does not: possess the same aura of mystery and 


excitement as “scientific medicine,"’ which may explain its lack of funding in : 


the past. Nevertheless, it is time that society awakens to the vast potential 
benefits of “social medicine", since alongside “scientific medicine”, it ap- 
pears both relatively inexpensive and remarkably effective. 

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those who test: and those whose 


products are being tested. They also : 


advocate 
laboratory and professional malprac- 
tice suits modelled after medical 


‘malpractice sults, which are now widely 


accepted. . 

Whatever its effects on testing, the 
profit factor has undoubtedly in- 
fluenced the marketing side of the 
Industry. Critics write that the industry 
has created entirely new markets for its 
drugs where none existed before. A 
case in point is the. medical treatment 
of mental stress — in 1977 doctors filled 
120 million prescriptions in the US 
alone for sleeping pills. and 
tranquilizers. | 

As Henry Lennard and three other 
medical psychologists write: “Only to 
the extent that Interpersonal and other 
problems can be construed as medical- 
psychiatric problems can they be 
considered appropriate targets for drug 
treatment ... The pharmaceutical in- 
dustry is redefining and relabeling as 


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the” widespread use of: 


medical problems calling. for drug in- 
tervention, a wide range of human 
behaviours «which, in the':past, have 
been viewed as falling within” the 
bounds of the normal trials? and 
tribulations of existence." ‘ 

They condemn this “recruitment of 


* more and more persons into a way of 


life in which the regulation of personal 
and interpersonal processes is  ac- 


“complished through the ingestion of 


drugs.” 
To expand these markets, the in- 


dustry relles on aggressive ad cam- 
paigns to the public and the medical 


profession. Drug companies were 
spending over a billion dollars a year in 
advertising to doctors in the late sixties, 
a figure that has since tremendously 
increased. > 

Financial pressures may adversely 
affect the quality of research performed 
by the drug industry. In 1979 the FDA 
published a list of 2,400 inexpensive 
generic equivalents of ‘brand name 
drugs. Critics cited the industry's at- 


$ 1. 


tempt to legally block this move as an 
example of ‘profits coming ‘before .the 
public good. However, the drug *com- 
panies say they opposed ‘the list 
because firms which sell cheap generic 
drugs generally have no research ex- 
penses to pay. Professor D.S. 
Ecobichon of McGill's pharmacology 
department says that by. marketing 
inexpensive drugs, these firms ad- 
versely affect the quality of other 


_ companles' research programs: 


In Canada the monitoring of drugs 
tests is further complicated; since most 
drugs sold here are imported. The 
Health Protection Branch does monitor 
imported drugs. But how well? 
Professor Ecobichon recounts the story 
of an assay he once performed on 
imported vitamin C. The tablets con- 


tained only one quarter the amount of: 


usable vitamin C that the package 
claimed they contained. The govern: 
ment had not noticed. 

The Health Protection Branch can 
impound drugs coming into the country 


for 60 days to test-them. Ecobichon 
says that although the branch em- 
ployees are “supposed to test" all in- 


coming drugs, they “probably release . 


the drugs unless they're suspicious.” 
He believes that although the branch is 
performing its job as well as possible, it 
IS “overworked,"" and consequently 


-‘‘always - looking at: yesterday's 


problems.” 

Data _misrepresentation, combined 
with inadequate subsidizing of 
governmental inspection, have helped 
make the results of tests, if not totally 
unreliable, at least suspicious. 

According to Ecobichon, one factor 
that can affect the safety of a drug is its 
“chronic abuse” -by the consumer, 
either intentionally or by mistake. He 
told the Daily: “There are no safe drugs. 
There are only safe dosages’... All 
drugs have unwanted side effects.” For 
this reason he believes that no amount 
of testing can absolutely guarantee a 
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by Harold Koblin 


Have you ever gazed behind a : 


drugstore counter and wonder- 
ed how your doctor knew which 
drug to prescribe? | 
Chances are that your docto 
is also bewildered about the 
myriad of drugs avallable to- 
day. According to Dr. Richard 
Ogilvie, Chairperson of Mc- 
Gill’s Department of Pharmac- 
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- .effects Is a major problem. 
“Ninety per cent of drugs 
that doctors are using now 
weren't avallable ten years ago. 
it's very difficult for them to 
keep up,” he sald. 
Normally, the first contact 
physicians have with a new 
drug Is a glossy, full colour 


. advertisement In a medical 


journal, or in a letter circulated 
by the drug company marketing 
> the product. , ; 

Their second stage of con- 
tact with the new drug comes 
when they are. visited by a 
detailer—a person hired by the 
company to tell doctors about 
‘the product. 


According to most:doctors, — 


the best type of detailer is a 
trained pharmacist. Most of 
them, however, possess only 
undergraduate science or arts 
degrees and receive only a 
short training program from 


‘their company. Dr. Anne Hol- | 


brooke, a clinical pharmacolo- 
gist at the Montreal General 
‘Hospital, Is concerned about 
the detallers’ lack of training. 
“What you find with them is 
dhat they have a very narrow 
scope because they're trained 
by the company to sell one 
drug. They're aware of what 
‘that one product can do, but 


generally they are not aware of 


the scope of the problem, of 
other. drugs In the field, or of 


where the drug really fits in « 


therapy.  ; NE 
> “They're not a good source of 
information because they give a 
"very biased view,” she sald, 
To make up for lack of 
- Information, hospitals in many 


--* of Canada’s larger centres offer 


refresher and general informa- 
tion courses. 

| The courses are usually well 

attended, but there are no 

Incentives to encourage doct- 

ors to keep up with modern 

» medical practices. 

In fact, the system presently 
used discourages the wide- 
spread participation of doctors 
in continuing education and 
refresher courses. 

First, doctors often become 
so Involved in their practices 
that they find it difficult to take 
the time. 

Secondly, attending the 
courses Is expensive. -The 
tuition for the courses is tax 


deductible,‘ but physicians still. 
“have to pay for the cost of. 
maintaining their practice while 





“they're attending a course. … 
“The only thing they can 


deduct Is the cost of tultion, 
which Is a small part of the 
expense, maybe $100, for a two 
day course, but it costs them 
$1,000 to take It. That's not a 


* good Incentive for them to keep 


up,” said Ogilvie. 
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The costs Involved in bring- 
ing a new drug to market are 
tremendous. For every drug 
sold there are another 10 to 20 
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(MRC), .the government body 
responsible for distributing re- 
search funds, Is losing Its 


battle with Inflation. 
Says Holbrooke: “In practl-. 


cal terms, even the grants that 
are being distributed are not 
worth as much as they were 
once. Pile that on top of the 


4 


a 


fact that Canada has always 
been underfunded as far as 
research goes and It just 
compounds the problem. 

“This is a major problem. | 
don't understand how people 
can expect the best health care 
in the world and be unaware of 
the money It takes to bring 
these co-called medical mira- 
cles Into fact.” 

Contributing to the lack of 
medical research funds in 
Canada is the fact that all of our 
drug’ companies are branch 
plants of multinational corpor- 
ations who tend to do their 
major research elsewhere. 

The only major Canadian 
owned pharmaceutical comp- 
any, Connaught Laboratories of 
Toronto, specializes in the 
manufacture of Insulin and 
vaccine, and does not do very 
much advanced research. 

“We in Canada have no 
control over what Is being 
researched and developed be- 
cause we don't have a Canadian 
drug Industry per se. The main 
offices are either in the United 
States or Europe and that’s 


_ where the basic’ research Is 


done. Ee 

“It's the head offices who 
decide what's going to be 
developed and what's not. 
They're certainly not respond- 
Ing to Canadian Interests or 
Canadian needs,” she sald. 
. The multinational character 
of the drug Industry and the 
resulting competition for mar- 
kets has led to the development 
of redundant drugs. These 
“me-too” drugs make up most 
of the drugs that come onto the 
market, and are similar to drugs 
already available. 


According to some doctors, 
some “me-too” drugs exist only 
so that companies can cash in 
on existing markets. They cost 
almost as much to develop as 
new drugs, but their existence 
seldom ylelds any significant 
medical advances. 

Their redundancy, however, 
Is tempered by their applicabil- 
ity to the occasional patient 
who, for some reason, can't 


__tolerate an existing drug. 


Holbrook told the Daily: “I 
wouldn't say that you should 
only have one drug in each 
category. You should have a 
choice, but you probably don't 
need the myriad of choices we 
have now. 

“From a medical point of 
view there probably are some 
compounds where the money 
could have been better spent 
elsewhere, like trying:to put 
money into basic research 
looking for significant adVan- 
ces In other areas. But as soon 
as you start talking about 
forcing companies to do this 
they complain that it’s interfer- 
ence with the freedom of 
corporations in society.” 


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_ SCIENCE ISSUE 








-other western 
+ nation on research, despite 
recent Increases In the budget 
- of Research and Development, 
and the government is reluct- 
ant to provide money for basic. 





_ Researchers prefer gov mone y to pri ivate 


by Rosemary Mannix _ 


_ * Subsidizing of medical res- 
« earch In Canada by the private 


sector is on the rise while 
government funding Is on the 
wane, Dr. Leonard Greenberg 
told the Daily in an interview. 
‘Dr. Greenberg, an assistant 


professor of experimental sur-* 
gery at McGill, is a member of 
- “Canadians for Health ‘Res- 
earch”, a private organization. 


created to fight: cutbacks In 
medical research funding. 
“Corporate investments 
have been Increasing by some 
20% a year In real dollars, 


+ whereas government: funding. 


has been going down by about 
the same amount,” he stated. 
Canada spends less than any 
industrialized 


medical'research. 

~ Most Importantly, as federal 
money for basic research 
dwindles, private agencies 


weed more ait more money 


= 


Last January, | spent a day as 
a medical guinea-pig. 
: Last November.| came across 


' an ad In the Dally for medical 


research volunteers. Normally | 
skip over the “volunteers” part 
of the classified section, but 


the mention of an honorarium 
awakened my latent monetary. 


desires. 
_ After a telephone call to the 


“Into thelr own specialized. 


research and keep thelr find- 


ings to themselves..““A few: 
years ago knowledge gained 


from this specialized research 


, would. have been published 


and-been used by someone 
else—products were always 


traded between scientists. 
Now you'll find that not only do: 


you not have the knowledge 


because the research Is fund- : 
ed by a company, but you: 
can’t even get the product until : 


they’re ready to sell it to you,” 
Greenberg sald. In effect, the 
pool of ‘scientific knowledge 


will’ become more limited’ as 


companies: fund their own 
research and refuse to publish 


their findings. This practice 


will become more. common, 
Greenberg claims, as long as 
governments: do not provide 
adequate research funds. 
‘Part: of. the” government's 
reluctance to subsidize res- 
earch stems. from the notion 
that research must produce 


immediate and concrete res-. 


ults. The government, says 


| SICERERE tends to view 


ae level in your Dre " 


| was overjoyed. For the next 
two days | carried an opaque 


plastic jug wherever | went: 


caused by the ever-present 


plastic jug, the test was largely | 


uneventful. - 

-For the first twelve. hours 
was under ‘observation. Num- 
erous . samples. -of -my ‘blood 


were taken through the cathet- ; 


Montreal General Hospital, 1° er. 


- discovered that the drug | 


would be testing was misoniz- 
adole, an anti-cancer drug used 
to make carcinogenic cells 


:more sensitive to radiation 
» therapy. | was told that | would 
be given a small dose (500° 


mg.); and pald $105 for. my 
trouble after | had passed a 
comprehensive pu toot exam- 


nation: 


| passed the physical. 


Ÿ'At7:45 a.m, on January 8, as 


catheter-was placed Into my 


arm. by Dr. Richard: Oglivie, 


‘Chairperson of McGill's Depart- 
ment of Clinical Pharmacology. 
At 8:00, I took a small, 


“Innocuous looking pill. Fifteen 
minutes later, a nurse gave me: 


a half litre jug and: told me it 
was fora urine sample, 
“What are you, an optimist?” 


_ tasked. 


“its for a twelve-hour sam- 
ple,” she replied; “and you're 
going to have to carry a bottle 


with you for the next forty-eight” 


hours s0 we can measure HE 


We. 


Apparently, | wasn't In any 
“danger for the duration of ‘the 


test; as | learned earlier that the 


‘drug had already been in-use 


for” several years In other 
countries. 
According to: Dr. Anne Hol- 


‘brooke, the coordinator of my 


test, taking an experimental 
drug Is no more dangerous than 


, taking a prescription drug” In 


one’ s own home. 
"Every time you take:a aria 
or a compound: you ‘re. being a 


guinea-pig; you're using the 


drug In a very uncontrolled 
situation. You know ‘very little 


about the compound. What you. 
+’. do know Is what's been told to 
you by others, and you just” 
.hope for the best. 


» “Buf in research studies all 
volunteers are placed In a very 


controlled atmosphere. Also, 
you're: here in a unit with 
doctors and nurses crawling all 
= over. the place and watching for 


any’kind of adverse effect.” 
Students are a good ‘source 


of volunteers, | was told, 


medical research as a profit- 
able activity. After “investing” 


money, they expect immed- | 


late returns, which of course 
are- not guaranteed. Most 


great medical advances were . 





the result of painstaking eff-! 
orts over many years, claims. 


Greenberg, citing the polio 
vaccine’and open heart surg- . 


ery as examples. Due to the” 
- unreliable returns from medic- + 


al research, governments have 
developed strict controls’ on: 
the: nature - of the research 


Un 


~ because of their flexible sche- 
dule and ‘generally healthy 


bodies. However,=tests on 


> healthy. young ‘students’ can 
Aside from the problems - 


only estimate the effects of the 


‘drug on. the old and sick 


patients for whom the drug is 
intended. 


So) researchers also look for 
two other types of people when 
they are doing non-clinical. 


research: people with urinary 


* malfunctions and the aged. ~~ 
liver’ and-or : 


Patients: with | 
kidney ‘diseases are”used:to 
determine whether defects in 
the body’s filtration system 
seriously’ affect the drug's 


metabolism. Unfortunately for 
_the researchers, there aren't 
.many= people» with liver and 
‘kidney disease. 


Inthe case of older people, 
“they're generally already on so 


many drugs that they. can’t ‘be : 
part of a preliminary drug * 


study. We prefer patients who 
take as: small an amount of 
medication as possible,” tle 


‘Holbrook. 
Researchers have. difficulty 


attracting volunteer subjects. 


One reason maybe: public 


distrust of the drug industry. 
Says Holbrook: 


mongst the, population that's 


really affecting health care. It's - 
probably oir fault; we haven't 


Informed. patients. properly-‘in 


‘terms of what’ they need to — 


know about drugs. It’s back- 
fired on us because people are 


April 2, 1980 


“There's an’- 
attitude of consumerism a-. 


anlar they fund. 
The most widespread: meth- 
od of awarding grants: has 


been through the peer review. 


system, under the auspices of 
the Medical: Research Coun- 
cil. The council is comprised 


‘of .sclentists who decide 


which of thelr colleagues are 
most worthy of grants. Once 
money becomes scarce how- 
ever, decisions become 


somewhat arbitrary because: 


there are too many deserving 
applicants. 

Scientists need funding to 
conduct specialized research, 
but Greenberg notes that their 
Job security is not tied to 
grants. A grant does -not 
provide a salary for the res- 
earch scientist: The bulk of 
the money - about 66% - 


salaries technicians. and res-: 
-earch assistants, 21% is 


earmarked for laboratory sup- 
piles, 5% for laboratory anim- 
als, and the remaining 8% 
covers travel and publication 
«costs, 

Dr. Greenberg feels that the 
epublicl: would support an in- 


~~ 


Iwasa medical guinea pig 


by Harold Koblin | 


getting information from jour- 
nals and magazines stating that 
drugs are bad for you and nat 
you shouldn't take them. 


a 


“In principle that's: correct. 


2 The FR you take 


crease in research funding - 
because in the long run 
everyone is affected by medi- 
cal research. He feels that it 
Is just a matter of making the 


‘public aware of research and 


scientific issues in general. 


-His organization, Canadians 


for Health Research is trying 
to arouse the public’s aware- 
ness. CHR Is a voluntary 
organization, formed in res- 
ponse to the cutbacks in 
government. funding of basic 
science research, and has 
attracted scientists and conc- 
erned citizens alike. CHR's 
main objective is to Inform the 
government and the public of 
the need for continuous supp- 
ort of medical research. The 
organization acts as a liaison 
between the government, the 
research community and the 
general public. By informing: 
all parties, CHR hopes to win 
support for increased res- 
earch funds. If present funding 
trends continue however, me- 
dical research in Canada may 
soon be riding on its reputat- 
lon alone. 


the better off you are, but there 
are always going to be people 
who need to take medicine. To 
help those people out, to have 
research In general we need to: 
have people taking part in these 
research studies,” she sald. 


This s science issue Was produced by: 


Julian Betts (Ed.) — 
_ Marc Tessier-Lavigne 
Ann Brocklehurst 


The science writers would like to thank the 


following for 
cooperation: 
John Southin 
CCNR. : 
David Roy 

J.J. Ecobichon 


their 


much appreciated 


Margot Rowley 
Greenpeace — 
‘Gail Heimann 

_ Ann Brocklehurst 


: Mother 





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by Dermot Kelly 
‘Johnny -B. Goode’ meant 
nothing to Johnny Rotten. He 


. was’ nineteen.when he started 


singing for the Sex Pistols; in 
1975. By then, as far as he was 
concerned, rock was ‘‘crawling 
up its own arsehole”. There is a 
tape of the Pistols in 1975 doing 


‘Johnny B. Goode’. After a brief - 


burst of:garbled syllables, our 
Johnny realizes that he doesn't 
know the words. He shouts 
some gibberish, and then cries 
in despair, “Stop it! | hate 
songs like this!” Johnny Rotten 
was never to despair again until 
he left the group three’ years 
later, vowing to make music 
that was “less melodic”. 

In 1976, the Pistols’ singer 
was an icon; punk was a new 
youth movement In Britain and 
Johnny “Rotten spoke for it 
when: he replaced Chuck 
Berry's folk tale with his own 
manifesto. Instead of: 

Deep down In Louisiana. 
Close to New Orleans... 
It was: 
Don't ask us to return, 
‘Cause we're not aware; 
| don’t pretend, 
‘Cause | don’t care. 

_ | don't believe illusions: 
- Too much Is for real. 

Stop your cheap comments, 
‘Cause we know what we feel. 


Rotfen was as good a ban- 
dleader as ever there was 
in rock:snarling and whining, 
screaming and. cackling— 


leaning ‘into the crossfire of © 


crashing cymbals and bone- 
rattling distortion. It was the 
devil's music guitarist Steve 


.Jones and drummer Paul Cook 


made, and they were 
spearheaded by Rotten's 
thoroughly bad-natured vocal 
attack. After the verses quoted 
above, Rotten is joined by. his 
cohorts in a chant that makes it 
perfectly clear how they feel 
about being the Idols of a new 
generation of rockers, 


‘We're so pretty, 
Oh so pretty— 
Vacant! 


It is ‘Pretty Vacant’, the first 


Pistols’ single to receive air- 
play. Johnny spits out the last 
syllable, making an obscenity 
of it. The chorus is repeated, 
and then Rotten takes things a 
step further; “And now..." he 
warns, and the band screeches 
to a halt. 
And.we don't care! 


The Pistols came to embrace 
the protest song by way. of the 
snottiest, most disaffected pop 
of the Sixties. They performed 
ragged, tuneless versions of 
The Who's ‘Substitute’ and The 
Monkees’ ‘Steppin’ Stone’. The 
first songs that they wrote 
themselves, then, complained 
bitterly, loudly and with 
hilarious arrogance about the 


cruelty of adolescent life in 
suburbia. Their rock and roll 
was more martial than sexual: it 
was urban blues with about as 
much undulation as a 
jackhammer chewing up the 


-pavement, 


. Steve Jones had picked up a 
swaggering guitar style that 
was at once sloppy and searing 
from ex-New York Doll Johnny 
Thunders who was in London 
while the meteoric Pistols were 
gathering momentum for the 
dizzying punk uprising. Johnny 
Rotten had Inherited the salty 


‘English language of playwright 


Harold Pinter, Bassist Glen 


Matlock had composed some. 


powerful music, and: Rotten 
had dashed off 
outrageous words. Thus far it 
was their strongest effort. 
Johnny called it ‘Anarchy’, It 
was 1976 arid the Sex Pistols 
were ready to face the nation. 
Anarchy in-the U.K. opens 
with an electrifying fanfare; the 
band idles for a couple of bars 
in the wake of their entrance, 
revving their engines like a 
motorcycle gang. Johnny 
Rotten laughs in his inimitable 
way and we are off on a 


‘After several 
‘emerge from one-another like 


Britain, 


the Queen’. 
Samson, Johnny Rotten strains 


whirlwind tour of ‘the British 
Isles: the council houses and 
the  |1.R.A. However, when 
Rotten warns us: | 
Your future dream 
Is a shopping scheme... 

It might as well be the West 
Island he's singing about. 
‘Anarchy’ boasts two guitar 
breaks. “In the city!!" Johnny 
shrieks before the first one. 
Reeling into the second solo, 


he hollers, ‘It's the only way to 


be!l!’’ and Steve Jones rocks 
out like the Artful Dodger 
commanding a Panzer division. 
choruses that 


battered Spitfires from a 


‘dogfight, the ‘song touches 
some: 


down with: the singer 
beseeching his countrymen to 
“Get pissed! Destroy!!" 

The Pistols embarked on the 
second leg of their Battle of 
taking Buckingham 
Palace by storm with ‘God Save 
Like an acned 


at the pillars of the Empire, 
When there’s no future, 
How can there be sin? 
We're the flowers 
In the dustbin; 


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We're the poison 
In the human machine, 
We're the future— 

Your future! 

“We mean it, man!” Rotten 
wails three or four times with 
increasing intensity as the 
song goes on until it becomes a 
crazed, devastating cry for life, 
and, when everybody joins in 
for the final, gleeful chorus of 


“No future!”, it really sounds 


as if they've brought the whole 
place down upon themselves. 
Call it twisted patriotism or 
self-immolation: it’s great rock 
and roll. 

Our story doesn't end there, 
however. The Sex Pistols 
wanted to see the worst their 
world had to offer, With 
‘Bodies’, they got it. In this 
brutal and apocalyptic song, 
the Pistols confront the letters 
they have received from their 
Strangest and most degraded 
fan, a girl named Polly from 
Birmingham. She had had an 
abortion and carried the foetus 
around in a plastic bag. Once 
again, the guitar absolutely 
lacerates. ‘‘Bodies,"’ Rotten 
bawlis, his disgust unbridled, 
“I'm not an animal!” The band 





accelerates ‘into the second 
verse as Rotten gives us the 


gory details of the demeaning 


business. ; 
Dragged on a table 
Ina factory, 
Illegitimate 
Place to be; 
Ina package 
In the lavatory, 

Dying little baby screaming— 
Mummy! I’m not an animal! 
Bodies! An abortion! 

Neither does Johnny sen- 
timentalize his identification 
with the undignified sacrifice: 
he goes on to call ita “gurgling 
bloody mess’. The song 
climaxes with a crowning burst 
of profanity condemning 
casual sex ‘and, by virtue of 
Rotten's telling Identification 


with the wasted body, 
abhorring life itself. No one is 
spared. 

With their last single, 


‘Holidays in the Sun’, Johnny's 
odyssey takes the Pistols to the 
Berlin Wall. His quest is more 
mysterious this time, wrought 
with menace. “Cheap holidays 
in other people’s misery,’ he 
Snarls as the band cranks up. 
He seems to be a tourist in 
Germany. (After two-and-a-half 
years, it's still hard to say just 
what is going on in this 
frightening and mesmerizing 
record.) It’s safe to say, all the 
same, that any tourist in a Sex 
Pistols song is going to have 
his vacation overrun by some 
kind of pilgrimage. Naturally 
then, Johnny's holiday is a 
vision of hell. “I’m waiting—" 
he screams, holding on to the 


_ beat for dear life as his stance 


is almost supplanted by the 
bombastic power-chords, ‘at 
the Berlin Wall!!”’ : 

Cook and Jones tell us all 'we 
need to know at this point. The 
crack of doom sounds. Barbed 
wire fences collapse into the 
inferno, The guard towers are 
next. ‘| wanna go over the 
Berlin Wall” Johnny screams 
as the other, Pistols surrender 
to the flames. The music now Is 
elemental and murderous. Like 
a pack of piranhas, the 
thrashing drums and guitars 
flay the possessed singer and 
the song ends abruptly with 
Rotten pleading, “Please don't 
be waiting for me...” 

Well, Johnny’s still out there, 
waiting. He Is no saint, but he 
has kept his appointment. How 
many men can boast as much? 
The Pistols changed lives like 
mine, intensified things 
somehow. Even as Elvis Presley 
lay dead, on his face in the 
bathroom at Graceland and, 
even as they dug their own 
grave, the Sex Pistols 
awakened our generation to the 
great tradition of rock and roll. 
Once more the abyss yawned 
and music was made in the 
face of it. 

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+ :  CFRM, Radio McGill is 
‘pleased to present Chick Corea 
‘and Friends at the Outremont 
Theatre, Saturday April 5 at 8 
and 11 p.m. Tickets are $8.50 
and $9.50 with reserved 


preferential seating available at . 


Gertrude's Pub. 

The long list of awards . 
‘bestowed upon Chick Corea is 
only one Indication of his 
musical success. The 
popularity of Corea and his 
band Return to Forever is also 
evidenced by.their high 


standing In pop and jazz charts. 


That Chick Corea maintains his 


Theatre 


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jazz authenticity Is due to a: 
phenomenal keyboard facility’ 
and a loyalty to musical roots 
planted deep In the Jazz 


tradition. Charlie Parker, Dizzy 
+ Gillespie, Bud Powell, Lester 


Young and Bill Evans are all 
major influences In Corea's 
music. | 

Born in Chelsea, 
Massachusetts in 1941 he first 
began playing classical music 


_ at age four. However his 


direction came from his father, 
Armando, who was a jazz 


trumpeteer and bassist for his 


own band. Playing for small 
high school bands, Corea 


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eventually moved to Manhattan 
where the story of his success 


If Corea’s career had levelled 
off after composing a number 
of solo albums, apprenticing 
with the traditional orchestras 
of Billy May and Warren 
Covington or backing Sarah 


- Vaughen in Las Vegas, he 


would have secured his place in 
the jazz pantheon. ut he had 
only just begun. 

In 1972 he formed the first 


began a period which brought 


- his talent to the forefront: The 


group consisted of bassist 
Stanley Clarke (who also 
pursues a successful solo 
career), vocalist Flora Purim, 
percussionist drummer Airto 
Moreira and saxophonist Joe 
Farrell (who will be performing 
at the Outremont Theatre.) 

The Initial success of the 
band’s Return to Forever album 


- was followed by other 


recording triumphs Including 
“Hym of the Seventh Galaxy”, 
“Where Have | Known You 
Before”, (on which the 
exjraordinary Al Dimeola 
performed), “No Mystery” and 
“Romantic Warrior”. In 1976 
Corea altered the image of the 


‘band from an amplified high 


energy sound toa more lyrical 
compositional format. His 


_ previously recorded solo album 


“The Leprechaun” was done in. 


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‘this style and went on to win 


Grammies for Best 
Instrumental Arrangement and 
Best Jazz Performance Group. 
corea narrowed the gap 
between the music of his solo 
and RTF work. The album that. 
was made by a restructured 
Return to Forever in 1977 (Joe 
Farrell, Gayle Moran, Stanley 
Clarke, and Gerry Brown) 


- “Musicmagic” was also 


nominated for a Grammy Award 
in the Best Jazz Composition 


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In spring of 1978 Chick 
completed a successful two 
and a half month world tour 
with a 13 piece band featuring 
vocalist Gayle Moran. They 
played to audiences in Europe, 
Australia, Japan and the U.S. 
The audience reception was 
fantastic. Other projects 
included recording “Secret , 
Agent” and-"Delphi" (on 
Polydor records) and a series of 
piano methods for Warner 
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More Titters at Jitters 


by Jim Blackburn 
Jitters a play by David French. 


Dir. Ted Follows. At the Centaur 


Theatre until April 6 
The Moment the lights go ‘up 

at the Centaur Theatre, you 
can tell you're watchinga | 
dreadful play. The dialogue is 
weak. The blocking Is poor. 
The timing Is non-existent. 
Eric House and Nonnie Griffin 
do nothing to dispel the 
general aura of warmed over 
CBC drama they carry with 
them. Worse still, Jim ~~ 
Murchison’s woodenness as 
Jimmy reminds one 
immediately of his 
appearance as Ted inthe 
McGill Players version of 
Michael. In walks Gerard 
Parkes, another few overacted 
gestures and... ZAP! Action 
‘halts; houselights go up, 
directions are called out—this 
is a rehearsal for The Care and 
* Treatment of Roses, a play 
within a play. The audience 
has had its dose of tedium for 
the evening and can now 
settle in for a first rate 
performance of the remainder 
of the play Jitters, =. | 

~ The setting Is a small 
Toronto theatre, where the 


company Is rehearsing the 
second play of a young 
playwright whose first show 
was highly acclalmed. His — 
new effort, The Care and 
Treatment of Roses stars 
Jessica Logan (Nonnie 


* Griffin), a Canadian actress 


who Is returning to the stage 
aftera two-year absence, 


following 4 series of failures in 
New York. She is supported by 


two veterans of the Canadian 
Stage (Gerard Parkes and Eic 


House), who have neve played 


New York and aren't sure that 
they want to. They are all 
caught in pre-opening 


. = “Jitters”, which are Intensified 
- by the anticipated opening 


night presence of the famous 
New York producer, Bernie 
Felder. Equally strung out is 

‘the fourth In the play, a novice 
making his professional debut 
(Jim Murchison). 

Jitters is David French's 
first comedy aftera series of 
first rate dramas. Leaving 
Home, Of the Fields, Lately 
and One Crack Out have been 
critical.successes which have 


established Mr. French as one 


of Canada’s most popular box 
office draws. Always more : 
concerned with human values 


and entertainment than art for 
art’s sake, in Jitters French 
allows his characters to 
openly scorn “meaning” and 
Instead gives the audiencea 
warm and rlotously funny 
show. | 
Evidently, it Is as enjoyable 
to act in as It Is to watch. The 
cast, epecially the three 
veteran members (Parkes, 
House and Griffin) seem to 
relish the opportunity to blast 
“fascist” stage managers, 
cheap costumes, Inept 
colleagues and, of course, 
smug, incompetent, lazy, 
illiterate, self absorbed and 
otherwise despicable critics. 


- As well, the superstitions of 


the stage and the actors’ 
love-hate relationship with 
“the Bitch Goddess Fame” are 
celebrated: The inflated egos 
of the actors and their petty 
antagonisms are indulgently 
displayed: the Director asks 
the Star if it isn’t time to start 
acting like adults, and she 
thunders back"we'’re not 
adults, we're actors!" 

In order to be more easily 
bashed around the characters 
were all written as 
caricatures, putting the onus 
on the cast toralse the roles 


KBr à 1880 


beyond the mere cut and 
paste level. It’s a task to 
which they rise admirably. 

- The show Is essentially 
carried by Its three main 
characters. Gerard Parkes is 
the fire breathing Patrick: 
Flanagan, an Irish stage 
veteran who is equally 
capable of raising the fear of 
God in his foes as playing 
practical jokes onthem. A 
French actually based 
Flanagan's character on Mr. 
Parkes, which goes a long 
way in explaining how 
perfectly tailored It is to him. 

Eric House Is suitably 
ridiculous as a bumbling and ° 
terrified mama’s boy who 
manages to get the best 
review of the cast for playing 
his role with “vuinerability”, 
but is so adept at refraining 
from total buffoonery that one 
Is tempted to forgive him at 
least some of his bit parts on 
Wayne and Shuster in 
decades gone by. 

The bitchy leading lady, 
uncertain if she was gone over 
the hill; is effectively played 
by Connie Griffin. Though 
perhaps less consistent in her 
performance than Parkes or 
House, there are moments 


when she truly shines. 

The supporting cast is 
primarily local and young and 
surprisingly good, Rob Roy 
gives a strong performance as 
the director, andevenJim 
Murchinson comes across 
well enough as the greenhorn ~ 
that ! quite forgive him for his 
garlier role in Michael. Sam 
Malkin, as the fretting author 
of The Care and Treatment of : 
Roses, is perhaps too ° 
timorous and excited to be 


‘fully effective, but Linda 


Mackay, Karen Fullerton and 
Terry Donald all deserve credit 
for their supporting efforts. 
Lest the invective hurled at 
critics pass for naught, let me 
also commend Barbra Matis 
for her stage design, and the 
Stagehands for the most 
efficient scene change since 
the Roadeyes pulled Neil 
Young's 20° microphone off the 
‘stage in Rust Never Sleeps. In 
case it really is true that 
critics have.to find some fault 
witha play, just to prove that 
they’re doing their job ' 
properly, let me point out that 
it’s an insult to Montreal 
audiences that Jitters Is only 
booked into the Centaur fora 
four-week run. 


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| Thibodeau created twenty kites Thibodeau has given 
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| a Sensation that almost led to Up in frustration If he starts out 
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Another school year Is 
, coming to a close. At this time : 
of year McGill reveals its highly 
contradictory nature. On: x 
the one hand, behaviourat — 
parties becomes progressively 
1 more outlandish and the .- 
number of students basking 
and frolicking in the sunshine 
Increases daily. 

This in sharp contrast to the 
drama unfolding Inside the 
libraries. Yes, that's right, it Is 
time to hit the books. In other 
words, with the threat of exams 
hanging like a Damocles sword 
over the heads of most 
students; April becomes 
McGill's annual “Month of 
Decision”. 

The best place to see this 
great human epic of toll and 
heroism is Redpath Library. — 
The tension Is thick enough to 
slice with a knife. Students 
Jockey frantically for positions 
while waiting for reserve books. 

The main area In the bullding 
Is crowded. There are those 
who are desperately searching 
for someone, anyone who 
might know what the hell Is 
going on in their course like, 
for instance, what the 
requirements are. 

There are others who hang 
out there simply to give the 


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impression that they are 
actually students. This is a 
bewildering phenomenon. | 
Most of these students are so 
far behind they have resigned 
themselves to the fact that 
another year at this venerable 
institution would not be a total 
disaster or that this summer 
will be marked by a determined 
effort to finish courses 
designated with that ultimate. 
symbol of procrastination - the 
thd» QUE 

Those students who en a 

-specialty of procrastination, 
heretofore known asthe 
“K-People”, should be awarded 
medals of recognition by the 
university. Usually the 
response of those who have 
submitted meekly to the fascist 
authority of the school by 
doing their work on time Is one 
of outrage, when faced with 
one of those tales from Arts 
students on the Ten-year Plan, 
who are completing papers due 
two years ago. However, if they 
only knew the mental anguish 
that plagues the “K-People”, 
they might be more 
understanding. 

First of all, the “K-People” 
run the risk of developing 
inferiority complexes. Class 
attendance becomes a vicious 
circle. They have to start 


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attending before the termruns 


out but every time they go they 


are subjected to the presence 
of quasi-John MacBains. These 
students, with their 4,0 GPA 


and law school admissions are , 


all on a first name basis with 
their professors. The culture 
shock that afflicts "K-People” 
is overwhelming. Class 
attendance has a way of Jolting 
these people back to reality, 
and alienation sets in with the 
realization that McGill is nota 
crucible of “The Revolution” 
nor Is it God's gift to social. 
education In the broadest 
sense of the term but is, horror 
of horrors, a university. — 
Once this discovery is made, 
Phase Two sets In. Now that 
these people have attended, 
they have also realized that to 
finish the course requirements 
miracles are necessary. Since 


Divine Intervention is not 


stupid. Don't tell them you had 


wholly reliable the only logical 
route Is the aforementioned 
ad aa 

This involves two steps, both 
of which require courage and 
mental toughness. The first is 
approaching professors for the 
extension. A good hint here is 
to be as frank with them as 
possible. Despite outward 
appearance, they are not that 


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‘forty-seven consecutive dentist 


appointments at the time of 
their class. Tell them the truth - 
you screwed around fora whole 
term, his class Is the most 
useless exercise imaginable, 
you detest the course material 
and McGill is an autocratic 
factory to produce foot-soldiers 
for the bourgeoisie. 

Don't be afraid to lay it on the 
line. This isn't living 
dangerously, they will admire 
your candor. Once this hurdle 
is cleared it is time for stage 
two. This Is the actual period of 
time in which you have to do 
the work. Not a day passes 
without the thought of the 
now-hated “K” managing to. 
stifle the joy of summer. A “K” 


_ person may be on a faraway 


beach or tripping the light _ 
fantastic at Studlo 54, when the 
mere mention of the word 


“university” can ruin the whole 


day. 

“K-People” are not the only 
ones populating Redpath. The 
aforementioned ultra-achievers 
are also there. Their definition 
of a crisis is whether they get a 
3.9 or a 3.8, Let them suffer 
their self-imposed torture. They 
are easily spotted, their eyes 
are not vacant and listless with 
the thought of flunking, but 


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usually are at the xerox 
machine industriously copying « : 
books for home study. If not, 
then they are studying 

diligently, looking 


. super-efficient with their index 


card filing system. 

The other group of students 
Is that great mass who take ; 
deadlines seriously but don't 
aspire to be Prime Minister or 
Chairman of Megatron, Inc. 
Black circles highlight their 
faces. Their eyes are jaded, ps 
having read too many reserve | 
readings. They continually 
pound caffeine into their 
system. 

Their body language is 
telling as they exist tenuously 
in the grim world of terror that : 
McGill creates this time of , 
year. Whether they are 
nervously clutching their cup of 


- coffee in Redpath Lounge or 


are crouched desperately over 
their books somewhere deep in 
the bowels of the building, 4 
these people are the real : 
victims of the Royal Institute) 
for the Advancement of 
Learning, alias “The Factory”. 

They won't be agents of 
social change. There is no : 
Oxford in their future. Yet 
against incredible odds they 


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by Stephen Lazer 
Throughout the history of 
cinema, different nations have 


had groyndswells of 


filmmaking talent at various 
historical moments. The late 
forties and fifties In Italy 
produced De Sica, Rossellini, 
Fellini, Visconti and Pasolini. 
The Japanese Industry was 


. especially strong from the early 


fifties until the mid sixties. The 
early sixties saw the 
appearance of a plethora of 
French directors, Today the 
West German film industry is 
producing the greatest number 
of original new directors. 

The reasons for this : 
creativity are, | think, nigh 
Impossible to discover.. 





Certainly societal factors have 
some important Impact. West 
Germanyisinaunique , 
position, being a country that 
was destroyed and remade, as 
It were, from scratch in the 
aftermath of the Second World 
War. West Germany Isa_- 
product of modern industrial 
capitalism, devold of the 
institutions of earller times. 
The new order demands a new 
form of commentary and leads 
the directors to ask new 
questions. | 

Then there Is also the 
question of the war and fascist 


experiences. There Is, | believe, 


elther under the surface or : 
explicit in the work of all the 
new German directors, an 
attempt to come to grips with 


the question of what social and 
psychological circumstances in 


Germany and In human nature 


allowed the Insanity of the : 
previous generation to take 
place. 

The young German directors 
are, of course, different from 
one another in both style and 
content. What they do have in 


. common Is a view of the world 


that Is cold, detached, amoral, 


and often insane. Among some. 


of the filmmakers there Is little 
regard for visual or narrative 


‘conventions of the past. There 


Is, above all, a desire to get at 
those things dark and hidden 
within the human spirit, things 
difficult to see or understand. 
The investigations can be 
fascinating and profoundly 
uncomfortable, : 
‘Werner Herzog is perhaps the 


: most original of the new : 


German directors. Stroszek and 


Aguirre, Wrath of God are 


beautiful and disturbing views . 
of men removed from the 
norms that allow them to 
function. The former is about 


German emigrants in middle 


America; the latter tells a tale 


* of European conquistadors In 


the Amazon jungle. Herzog - 
doesn't mince; he tries to go 
straight to the heart of what he 
sees as the latent potential for 
primal aggression at the base 
of the human psyche. - 
Unfortunately, his visions can 
become personal to the point of 
being incomprehensible. This 
was the case in his recent Heart 
of Glass. This is not because- 
he Is self indulgent. The issues 
with which he deals are 
undoubtedly real, yet the 
‘language’ that he seems forced 
to use Is not readily ~ 
recognizable. He sometimes 
appears constrained by the 
outer limits of the medium 


Itself. His remarkable short, La : 


Soufriére, about an Island 
threatened with a major 


‘volcanic eruption, is made with 


the same reckless, 
self-destructive abaondon that 
he seems so Interested in 
depicting. 

The most prolific of the : 
group Is Rainer Werner 
Fassbinder. He turns out 
pictures at a breakneck pace 
(between 2 and 3 a year). 
Probably as a result of this he 
has made a number of bad 
movies. He has also produced 
some great ones. Like 
Herzog's, his films are about 
the evils of both modern 
society and the people within 
it, though his settings are more 
or less contemporary, and his 
films are therefore more 
accessible. The Marriage of 
Marla Braun may have been the 
most powerful film of 1979. 
Cinematically, Fassbinder has 
a visual and narrative 
conciseness that virtually 

compels the viewer to be alert 


at all times. There Is no wasted 


time or space. When 
Fassbinder is right, his films 
are as tightly made as 





anyone's. 

Wim Wenders makes films 
about societies that are 
contrived and alienating. His 


‘heroes are all dislocated, 


sometimes by choice, while 
others, like Jonathan of The — 
American Friend, are at least 
partly convinced to move out of 
their place in the world. 
Jonathan's tempter, Ripley, Is 
himself a wanaering soul: A 
dealer of art forgeries, he is an 
American who wears a Stetson 
and drives a Cadillac through 
the streets of Hamburg. It is 
when people lose their societal 
orientation that things become 
dangerous, and the hold that : 
modern Germany has Is flimsy 
Indeed, and irrational too. 

The newest member of this 
group is Hans-Jurgens 
Sybenberg, who has made one 
major film, Our Hitler: A Film 


by Tim Falconer 
Marshall Brickman's Simon 


-Is not a bad film, but itis a 


disappointing one. Seeing 
Simon is comparable to” 


reading a Tom Robbins’ novel: 


it is fun but too intellectually 


_ self-indulgent to be taken 


seriously. 

Brickman co-wrote Sleeper, 
Annie Hall and Manhattan 
with Woody Allen. Simon was 
written and directed without 
any help from Allen, which is 
too bad, Brickman could have 
used his help. Anyone who is 
expecting Simon to prove 
Brickman the equal of Allen 
will be disappointed. 


In all fairness to Brickman, ‘: 
Simon is his first solo effort. It 


is better than Allen's early 
films, (with the notable ex- 
ception of Play it Again, Sam), 
as good as Sleeper, but it 
does not come close to the 
brilliance of Manhattan. While 
it may seem both unfair and 


irrelevant to compare Simon to 


Manhattan, the fact remains 


April 2, 1980 


The German Director Blitz 


From Germany, which, inits 


seven hours Is quantitatively as 


‘big as any 3 or 4 other works. 
This crazily ambitious film, 
sets out to examine nothing 
less than Germany's love of 
Hitler, its collective gullt in his 
doings, and the complicity of 
the entire world: The work is 
surrealistic, and often brilliant. 
It is also highly flawed, . 
especially in the second half, 


but what Is good makes the bad 


worthwhile. The picture also 
happens to be about movies 
themselves. Introspection and 
self-criticism of the art is a part 


of the new German film. 


. The good film made of 
Gunther Grass’ extraordinary 
novel The Tin Drum was a 
co-winner of the Cannes Film 
Festival last year. For its 
director, Volker Schlondorff: 


_ (The Lost Honour of Katerina 


Simple 


that Brickman had a hand in 
writing both films. Simon 
indicates that Brickman was 
unable to keep up with Allen 
as he progressed from 
Sleeper, to Manhattan. 
Simon has the disturbing 
trait of making its audience 
feel jaded. One gets the 
feeling that it has all been 
done before, and done better. 
When Simon (Alan Arkin) ends 


Up in the midst of a commune 


of television cultists, the film 


_ becomes uncomfortably 


similar to Network. Un- 
fortunately, Simon lacks the 
cogency of Paddy Chayevsky's 


‘Satire. 


Simon is an eccentric - 


psychologist teaching at 
Columbia University. He is 
chosen by the computer at the 
Institute of Advanced Con- 
cepts to play an ex- 
traterrestrial as part of an 
experiment. The Institute of 
Advanced Concepts is a “think 
tank” full of demented in- 
tellectuals who prefer to ex- 
periment with the human race 


Blum, A Free Woman), the film 
represented a shift. His earlier 
work was Clearly political and 
employed a more or less 
standard narrative technique. 
This is not the case with The 
Tin Drum, which is history seen 
through the eyes of a child, 
There are other lesser known 
German directors. They fit into 
a general conventional 
framework, though it must be 
stressed that this is not to 
insinuate that their films are 
overly alike. Their greatest 
similarity is their common 
tendency to ask difficult and 
probing questions. The’e is a 
general rejection of characters 
who are wholly good or bad, At 
a basic level the filmmakers 
themselves seem unsure and 


_ambivalent. They are probably 


the greatest source of energy 
and progress in film today. 


‘Simon’ 


rather than solving its 


. problems. 


Arkin delivers the best 
scene in the film when he acts 
out evolution from a single- 
celled creature to homo 
erectus, and then human 
development from the in- 
troduction of language, 
through the industrial 
revolution, to the present. It is 
two billion years represented 
in two minutes, but it works. 
On the other hand, watching a 
man make love to a computer 
is just plain silly. 

Brickman’s biggest mistake 
is in giving in to the temp- 
tation to put too many ideas in 
one film. This brand of self- 
indulgence is not uncommon 
in first efforts but it always 






has the same result: the good 


is lost in the bad. 

While Simon has its en- 
tertaining moments, it is 
probably a good idea to hold 
on to the four dollars and wait. 
unfil'it hits the repertory 
theatres. Exams should be 
over by then. 


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In the competitive world of 
the North American film in- 
dustry, there Is a constant 


-battle among the big movie 


ompanies to outdo each 
other and come up with the 
“blockbuster” film. These are 
the films with the “all-star 
casts,’’ technicological — 
breakthroughs and multi- 
million dollar budgets. What is 
often unfortunately forgotten 
Is that no amount of technical 
overkill can compete with an 
honest protrayal and a simple 


«Story of intrinsic human value. 


This fact Is amply driven home 
by Hide in Plain Sight. 

Hide In Plain Sight marks 
the directorial debut of James 
Caan, who succeeds ad- 
mirably in presenting a story 
whose value lies in its 
honesty, simplicity and 
realism. This requires no small 


‘amount of discipline. The < 


temptation Is to experiment 
with all sorts of cinematic 
techniques and fill in the gaps 
with action scenes and 
melodrama, Caan does not fall 
prey to this. 

The film Is based on a true 
Story. It concerns the fight of 
Thomas Hacklin (portrayed by 
Caan), a Buffalo rubberworker 


_who tries to find his children 


after they are “abducted” by. 


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though they live with his ex- : 
wife Ruthie (Barbra Rae) who 
Is involved:with a small-time 
hood named Jackie Scolese 


(Robert Viharo). When Scolese, 


convinced by his Mafia 
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testify against the Mob in ~ 
return for protection by the 
American government, is 
subsequently relocated toa 


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‘with Hacklin's search for his 


children. At first, he attempts 
to deal with the government 
through the normal channels 


- but his frustration increases at 


their Inaction and lack of 
concern and he decides to 


hands. 


On the surface, it would 
appear that the movie has all 
the ingredients of a vigilante- 
type movie where a decent, 
law-abiding citizen undertakes 


-an individual vendetta to right 
the wrongs suffered at the 


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hero unleashes his 


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violence. Caan effectively 
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-the government attenipts to 


hide his children from him. 
However, his goal remains the 
return of his children’s 
custody and not to waste all 
those who have thrown 
roadblocks in his path. 


.. The success of the film lies 
in its realism and simplicity. 
Hacklin's relationship with 
Alisa (Jill Eikenberry) is por- 
trayed touchingly while the 
depiction of his social en- 
vironment is honest. The film 
does not attempt to roman- 
ticize working-class life but, 


- on the other hand, it does 


attempt to portray how 
Hacklin looks for happiness 


~ and comfort in his world, 


In evaluating this film, 
superlatives of the kind 
splashed across its ads are 
not particularly applicable. 
However, what makes it so 
enjoyable is the consistency 
of the story and the overall 
excellence. Based on SO 
simple a plot and lacking all 
the gadgets and devices used 
in other movies to overwhelm 
us sensually, Hide in Plain 
Sight is an unqualified suc- 
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summer job and making travel 
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Johnston will be simply an 
unpleasant memory. The . 
nostrils will be unable to 
conjure up the aroma of 
Gertrude’s pizza and the circles — 
will gradually disappear from 
around the eyes. Therefore one 
shouldn't despair at the 
thought of finals - we should 
have such problems. Think of 
all those college dropouts like 
Joe Clark. Well, maybe, you’ 
had better get back to the 
books. 


they don't lust after power. 
Their struggle Is a heroic one. 

The “K-People” can drift 
aimlessly through school in six 
or seven years and then do the 
same thing on the outside. The 
ultra-achievers have visions of 
portfollos and doctorates 
dancing in their heads. Why, 
but why do the others battle 
on? Are they fools of the 
system? Do they entertain the 
remote possibllity of joining 
the ranks of student elite? 

- Maybe they are actually here to 
learn? Herein Jies the greatest 
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lf The Weekly could talk it would probably be a 
scintillating conversationalist. After all, The Weekly 
knows just about everything there is to know about 
music, film, dance, theatre, art, books, and bran 
muffins. 

But like all. good things the 1979-80 Weekly must 
come to an end. We've covered some new ground, 
explored the ins and outs of carrot cake, unravelled ; 
the mysteries of popular culture, solved the age old 
question of LOVE, and checked into Montreals 
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- Johnston:Searching for collegiality 





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by Kathy Salamon 

The Engineering Blood Drive 
traditionally stages a competit- 
lon to see which department 
can get the most donors. The 
engineers didn’t know which 
cateaorv to credit, though, 


when McGill principal David’ 


Johnston signed up give blood. 
The principal further puzzled 
students - some who had been 
at McGill for two years and 
didn't even know what the 
previous principal looked like - 
when he made an effort to 
socialize with the students 
around him. 

After one academic year. at 
McGill, there are still many 
other university faculty‘ memb- 
ers, workers, and students 
puzzled about which “category” 
Johnston fits in. 

Johnston himself never 
thought he would be involved In 
a university. He is not an 
academic. In his undergraduate 
days at Harvard he wanted to 
go into elther law or medicine, 
but because of a hand Injury he 
chose law. He got his BA in 
1963 and an LL.B. in 1965. He 
decided to postpone his law 
career one year to teach at 
university, and he’s been there 
ever since. 

In an interview with the Dally, 
Johnston talked about his 
decision to remain In academic 
life. 

“| suspect I'd be happy no 
matter what | did,” he said. 

“Life Is. like that. If you're a 
reasonably optimistic person 
as | am, you make a choice, do 
it for a period of time, and you 
are glad you've done it.” 

Before being appointed 
Sugcessor to former principal 
Robert Bell last year, Johnston 
was Dean of Law at the 
University of Western Ontario 
where he had taught since 
1974. . 

At 38, Johnston is the 
youngest university principal in 
Canada. 

“| don't think about that very 
much except when | get tired 


‘and don't feel so young,” he 


says adding, “There have been 
a number of McGill principals 
younger than! am, though, so 
I'm not setting any preced- 


ents.” 

Johnston did create a prece- 
dent for McGill principals, 
however, when he appeared as 
a special guest in a walk-on 
part In the Savoy Society's 
Production of Princess Ida. 
This Involvement in university 
activities Is important to him as 
well as “great fun.” 

“| see student participation 
of that sort - full of quality and 
on a higher order of fun - very 
Important to university life,” 
sald Johnston. 

“My own concern would be 
that not enough students parti- 
cipate broadly in student life in 
the precious years they’re 
here." 

Johnston, who is -person- 
able, looks like Johnny Carson, 
was once almost drafted for the 
Boston Bruins, and was the 
inspiration for a character in 
the bestseller Love Story. 
Though some think this public- 
ity Is good for the university, 
many faculty members are 
apprehensive about what kind 
of principal Johnston will be. 

In an installation speech, 
Johnston emphasized a “colle- 
gial system of government and 
collegial goals" at McGill. 
Some feel he has lived up to 
this promise, others disagree, 
and some even fear the concept 
of collegiality itself. 

“He's come into a demoraliz- 
‘ed university, and it's still too 
early to form a judgement on 
what sort of principal he Is,” 
sald faculty member Jack Wel- 
don. 

“However, | find his discuss- 
lons of collegiality philosoph- 
ically disturbing as It’s a 
corporate notion.” Another fa- 
culty member felt that colleg- 
lality was “in reality a small 
inner circle of friends, and the 
name a symbol only.” 

However, many students felt 
that Johnston is a “great asset 
to McGill," as Students’ Soci- 
ety president John MacBain 
said. “He is energetic and 
hardworking, and it's just a 
more vital administration.” 

In retrospect, Johnston feels 
“very satisfied” with the '79-'80 
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of accomplishments that have 
occurred this year that have 
pleased me and measure the 
high quality of the university 
and the student body. Three 
Students have won Rhodes 
Scholarships, and the Faculty 


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woes. 


of Medicine got a seven-year: 
accreditation where a three to 
five year accreditation is the 
usual. 

"I'd be a lot happier if there 
was a better financial situation, 
but it's been a very exciting 
period. I’m particularly imp- 
ressed by the dedication of 


many of my colleagues working > 


above and beyond the call of 
duty.” 

‘Outlining the three most 
important problems that occ- 
upy his time as “finances, 
tinances, and finances,” John- 
ston sald: “My primary Job this 
year was how to maintain the 


by Stuart Logie 





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April 2, 1980 


Principal: Johnston: Greatest 
quality of education and research despite 


quality of education and re- 
search.when faced with signifi- 
cant financial difficulties.” 
Johnston pointed out there 
have been signs of improve- 
ment lately as the federal and 
provincial governments are be- 





challenge is maintaining the 
financial 


coming more concerned about 
ralsing the percentage of GNP 
spent on research and devel- 
opment. 

“Last year it came to less 
than one per cent, but there 
have been moves to increase 
the rate substantially up to- 
wards two-and-a-half per cent.” 

Johnston would like to see 
more funds available to support 
the many initiatives arising in 
individual departments. He 
pulls out his list of appoint- 
ments for the day and cites 


some examples of worthy pro- 


jects, including research 
more extensive instruction, and 


SURE ALOT 
MORE LAUGHS 





increased funding for various 
departments. 

“I'd like to spend some time 
encouraging these new initia- 
tives. They could really en- 
hance the quality of student 


life.” 


McGill was also plagued with 
labour problems this year, 
which peaked with the McGill 
Service Workers’ strike. The 
administration came under 
much criticism for its handling 
of the strike. 

“If there's a future strike, 
we'll look carefully at our 
procedure, Most universities 
are not very adept at handling 
Strike situations. Our last strike 
was in 1973, so we were not 
equipped. We don't have a large 
administrative group to deal 
with it. We certainly will review 
the activities and procedures 
followed. If they are less than 
satisfactory, we can make 
changes." 

_Johnston also sees univers- 
ities playing an indirect role in 
politics. 

“In terms of the issues that 
fragment us in Canada right 
now as a society, McGill can 
play a very important role. First 
of all, bringing together stu- 
dents from different back- 
grounds, different language 
groups, and different bases of 
experiences helps people better 
understand those differences, 

“McGill has about the same 
ethnical make-up as Canada. 
We can grow and learn from 
the cultural diversity reflected 
in the student body. Our faculty 
also comes from regions all 
over the world.” 

However, Johnston adds, 
"The international aspect of 


‘McGill is important, but so are 


Its roots in Canada, Quebec, 
and Montreal. The emphasis on 
each Is equally important.” 

“McGill is an institution that 
is very conscious of the politic- 
al situation,” said Johnston, 
“but the fundamental mission 
is to educate young people who 
come to it and provide scholars 
with the opportunity to make 
contributions to the advance- 
ment of knowledge. That res- 
ponsibility will continue de- 
spite of whatever.” 


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Letters 


continued from page 6 


appearance of the wrong 
notices in the Today Column, or 
of no notice at all. | find this 
inexcusable. It is a small but 
important service and it is 
irresponsible of the Daily not'to 
carry it out properly. 

| realise that it is too late for 
this year’s editors to change 
policy, but | hope that next 
year's editors take the Debating 
Unions’ opinions into con- 
sideration. The Daily can and 


“should be more attentive to 


McGill student concerns. 
Jennifer Butt 
President 
McGill Debating Union 


Election invalid 


To the Daily: 

It would appear that the 
election of the three club 
representatives to Students’ 
Council on Wednesday, March 
26 was invalid. The noticefrom 
the Students’ Society (Daily, 
March 20) clearly stipulated 
that the quorum for the elec- 
toral meeting was “two-thirds 
of the total number of 
organizations eligible to vote," 
that number being sixty.. 

The number of organizations 
that were actually represented 
at this meeting was 27. Ap- 
parently this meeting then 
decided that those there would 
constitute a quorum. Thus an 
inquorate meeting decided that 
it was quorate, and proceeded 
to elections. This is what is 
known as “pulling oneself up 
by one’s bootstraps.” The 
election was clearly invalid 
under the terms of the notice 
given. It may have been a 
practical method of 
proceeding, but once con- 
Stitutions are openly broken, 
and this remains unchallenged, 
then constitutions cease to be 
worth the paper they are written 
on. 

John J. Rankin, LL.B. (Hons.) 

Institute of Comparative Law 


Anything wrong 
with Mozart reruns? 


To the Daily: 

Rick Groome is right. It is 
time the Daily cleaned up its 
act and stopped subjecting the 
student population to the views 
of a few left-leaning journalists 
who control the editorial 
content of this rag. 

All year, we have read many 
articles dealing with strikes at 
the University of Montreal, 
feminism, unionism, anti- 
nukes, whatever. These are all 
fine, valid concerns to the 
members of the McGill com- 
munity, but in recent weeks, 
they seem to have become 
nothing more than space fillers. 
Overkill has given these issues 
all the impact of an old “I Love 
Lucy" rerun. 


The problem has come to a 
head with the Daily's recent 
coverage of the Referendum 
issue and its implications on 
campus. The paper is reluctant 
to discuss the Referendum 
question itself, but focuses 
instead on the maneuvering of 


- different groups who have:lent 


money to make their views 
known to the public. | refer to 
the various corporate groups 
who have supported Liberal 
McGill in the Referendum 
debate. 

The Daily seems to view its 
own editorial stand as 
sacrosanct and is appalled to 
see a group trying to present 
another side of the picture. This 
is not responsible journalism. 

Let the different groups 
debate the issues with 
whatever resources are 
available to them. Let them 
take clear positions and take 
them to the people to decide. 
Let us stop criticizing political 
mechanisms and Start debating 
the future of Quebec. 

And for God’s sake, let the 
Daily return tot he respectable 
position in the McGill com- 
munity it once occupied. 

Gregg Epstein 


. contributed 


Bill 101 is an un-law 
To the Daily: 


| wish to clarify the specifics 
of my letter to the editor which 
appeared in last Wednesday's 
Daily (March 26, 1980). 

Firstly, the letter was signed 
“Rick Groome" and made no 
mention of my position on any 
club or committee. erefore 
the Daily has no right to insert 
my positions and thus in- 
sinuating that my personal 
opinions are that of the group 
as a whole. 

So, let it be known the letter 
dated March 28, 1980 is my 
personal opinion and thus if 
any group wishes to pursue or 
challenge the letter in question, 
direct it to me personally. 

Secondly, | wish to publicly 
retract point No. 5 on the same 
letter in question. Upon further 
investigation it was clarified 
that the Caisses Populaire 
Desjardins has in no way 
to the Parti 
Quebecois. Thus Mr. Crevier is 
in no way connected to a party 
that support apartheid via 
contributions from the Caisses 
Desjardins. 

However, | still challenge the 


U3 R.P.Q.M. to justify the P.Q.'s 


M. Groome s'est fourvoyé 


To the Daily: : 

Dans votre numéro du -28 
mars 1980, M. Rick Groome 
avançait un certain nombre de 
faits par rapport à l'Union 
régionale de Montréal des 
caisses populaires Desjardins. 
Nous aimerions en rectifier 
certains. 

La Standard Bank of South 
Africa est un des milliers de 
correspondants de la Chase 
Manhattan Bank. Si les caisses 
populaires Desjardins ont 
transigé ‘avec ces banques, 
c'était dans le cours normal de 
leurs opérations in- 
ternationales d'émission de 
traites ou d'expédition 
d'argents au nom de leurs 
membres. 

Le Mouvement Desjardins a 
toujours affirmé sa neutralité 
politique et n'a jamais souscrit, 
de quelque façon que ce soit, à 
un parti politique qu'il soit 
provincial ou national. Nous 
trouvons très regrettable que 
des personnes se servent des 
caisses populaires, une des 
institutions les plus authen- 
tiquement québécoises, à des 
fins politiques. Nous allons 
mème jusqu'à dire que de telles 
affirmations font preuve d'un 
manque d'honnèté in- 
tellectuelle flagrant. 

Nous espérons que, dans 


‘ votre prochain numéro, vous 


effectuerez cette mise au point. 
De plus, nous convions M. 
Groome, à Sa convenance, à 
une rencontre où il pourrait 
nous fournir les preuves qu'il 
prétend détenir car nous 
rejetons totalement toutes ses 
affirmations. 

Veuillez agréer, mademoi- 
selle, l'expression de nos senti- 
ment les meilleurs. 

Jacques L’Abbé 
secrétaire général-adjoint 
Caisses Populaires Desjardins 





senseless expenditure for 
unilingual French signs under 
Bil} 101. People. American 
tourists as a prime example, 
become the innocent victims of 
a law that has been proven 
unconstitutional in the highest 
courts in both Quebec and 
Canada. 
Rick Groome 
McGill University student 


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The Ugly Canadian 


To the Daily: 


On March 12th a 
written by two ex-Canada World 
Youth (CWY) participants was 
published in the Daily 
criticizing -Chris Cavangh's 
position on CWY. We think that 
they have misrepresented that 
position. 

We are ex-CWY participants 
who are concerned with 
Canada's role in the Third 
World. We feel CWY plays a 
small but significant aspect of 
this role and we see a need for 
a critical evaluation of CWY 
and subsequently of Canada's 
role in development. 

CWY's goals are the 
acquisition of another 
language (sometimes two) and 
the sensitization of par- 
ticipants to the Third World 
realities and developmental 
issues, 

We don't question the 
validity of these stated goals. 
However, we do question the 
impact CWY has on Canada 
and the exchange countries. Is 
this impact beneficial? 

We question the influence 
CIDA has upon CWY. In 1980-81 
CIDA financed 4.6 million of 
CWY's 4.8 million dollar 


budget. In year 111 (1974-75) took. 


over the funding of CWY. By 
year V (1976-77) all countries 
that were not part of CIDA’s 


letter 


program were phased out of the 
CWY exchange. 

We question the assertion 
“Politics is not a criterion for 
choosing an exchange 
country.’’ All exchange 
countries are Western-oriented 
and have trade relations with 
the West. 

What effect does CWY have 
upon Third World participants? 
Are Western values’ and at- 
titudes imposed? Some Third 
World participants have 
remained in Canada and many 
wish to return. 

Does CWY contribute to 
maintaining friendly relations 
between Canada and the Third 
World? 

What effect does placement 
of CWY groups into villages 
have upon village inhabitants? 
Is this influence negative or 
positive? 

These are just a few of the 
questions about CWY's 
Structure and impact that we 
would like to be able to answer. 

Chris Cavangh 

Peter Findlay 
Doug Janoff 
Christine Johns 
Ellen McRae 
Anne Moore 
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To the Daily: 

On behalf of the student 
representatives to the Univers- 
ity Senate, we would like to 
extend our appreciation for the 
efforts of the McGill Daily, and 
particularly of Keith Boag, in 
their thorough and timely cov- 
erage of the proceedings in 
Senate this year. 

The student Senate caucus 
has been very active in the 
1979-80 session. Among the 
accomplishments have been i) 
the requirement of student 
evaluations in the determinat- 
ion of tenure, ii) the implemen- 
tation of a mid-term break for 
the Winter Term 190-81, iii) the 
recognition of students’ rights 
to support the strike without 
penalty. 

As well, student senators 
made determined, although un- 
successful efforts this term to 
pass proposals requiring the 
publication of student evaluat- 
lons of teaching. 

In each of these endeavours, 
successful or otherwise, Daily 
coverage was incisive and 
valuable for the student comm- 
unity, as well as encouraging 
and supportive for their repres- 
entatives in Senate. 

Brad Armstrong 
Michele Press 





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Air law institute 
has world reputation 


by Larry Ostola 

Aviation officials the world 
over think of McGill when they 
think of aviation law, accord- 
ing to Dr. Jean-Louls Magde- 
lénat, assistant director of the 
McGill Institute of Air and 
Space Law. 

“We are very proud to share 


| our prestige with McGill as a 


whole,” said Magdelénat. The 
institute, founded in 1951 as 
an extension of the faculty of 
law, is the only one of its kind 
In the world, and students 
come from as-far away as 
Columbla‘and the Ivory Coast 
to attend. From.an initial 
enrolment of 13 in 1951, the 
institute now has 24 students. 
' In 1976, the Institute was 
recognized as a centre for 
research by the Quebec gov- 
ernment, and since that time 
has undertaken many projects 
Including a global study of 
Canadian air transport regula- 
tion and policy, and the 
publication of a “world wide 
Space law bibliography”. One 
of the projects currently under 
way is an analysis of space 
law problems, and the formul- 
ation of guidelines for Canada. 





There are five permanent 
professors at the institute, 
and 15 more visiting profess- 
ors who will stay anywhere 
from two days to a week. 
Many have been consulted by 
both ICAO and IATA. (Interna- 
tional Civil Aviation Organiza- 
tion, International Aviation 
Transport Association) and 
receive invitations every year 
to lecture around the world. 

Dr. Nicholas M. Matte, 
director of the institute, is 
recognized as a leading world 
authority on air and space law, 
and has published numerous 
books on the subject. 

Besides attending lectures, 
Students also gain practical 
experience through visits to 
Air Canada and Pratt and 
Whitney. Many of the students 
already have backgrounds in 
aviation, working with airlines, 
or the aviation authorities in | 
their home countries. The 
institute also works in collab- 
oration with many European 
universities. Most of the grad- 
uates from the institute have 
gone on to work in the field, 
either in ICAO or with various | 
airlines. 





















Prodding McGill's conscience 


by Richard Goldman and Steven Yudin 
“South Africa is attempting to survive 
its present political and economic crisis 
by relying upon massive borrowing 
abroad combined with increasing levels 
of repression at home." 
-Task Force on the Churches 
and Corporate Responsibility 
“The Board of Governors will undertake 
to see that all investments are socially 
responsible... We will try to deal with 
this issue as honourably and as well as 
we can.” 
-Chief Justice Alan B. Gold, 
Chairperson of 
McGill Board of Governors 


Following a trend sweeping North 
American campuses, this year McGill 
students undertook for the first time to 
examine the social responsibility of 
their university’s investment policy. 
Although much : has been ac- 
complished, the McGill South African 
Committee (SAC) has yet to see the 
light at the end of the tunnel. 

SAC was set up in September by 
McGill Students’ Society with the 
mandate to “determine ways in which 
McGill University could express its 
displeasure with apartheid.” 


Apartheid is the racist policy of the 


government of South Africa, which 
sees the country’s 20 million blacks 
forcibly separated from the dominant 
white minority and stripped of their 
citizenship and all social and economic 
rights accompanying it. From the 
workplace to the ordinary park bench, 
blacks are second-class citizens by law. 
They are subject to police harrassment 
at any moment and thousands are 
detained every year without recourse to 
trial, under the provisions of a dense 
web of repressive legislation. 


: 
LU 


Blacks’ average income is 
less than one seventh of the 
whites’. | 





Although statistics belittle their 
plight, United Nations’ figures tell us 
that blacks’ average income is less than 
one seventh of the whites, that nearly 
half of all black children whose families 
are forced into tribal ‘‘bantustan” 
homelands die before. the age of five 


and that the whites enjoy the highest . 


standard of living in the world. 

Apartheid is universally condemned 
by the international community, and 
SAC's mandate was to see what McGill 
students could do to oppose it for, 
though the problem may seem to be at 
the other end of the world, it begins 
right here at home. 
_, Western countries, our own included, 
are reaping substantial profits from 
investments in South Africa. 
Multinational corporations and banks, 
with a strong Canadian representation, 
account for almost $10 billion in direct 
investments in all sectors of the South 
African economy. Investors are at- 
tracted by its tremendous wealth of 
natural resources and the subsistence 
wages that prevail. And McGill's silent 
participation in these companies 
represents tacit approval of their 
support for apartheid. 

By last October, SAC was beginning 
to take form and chairperson Richard 


Boudreau ‘saw the turnout at meetings 
increasing every week. The committee 
outlined its initial goals as increasing 
student awareness of the situation in 
South Africa and determining the extent 
of McGill's investments in the apartheid 
regime. Members began setting up 
information tables around campus and 
bringing in such speakers as they could 
afford without a budget. ~ 
Dawson professor Pat Bolland, who 
led the successful campaign to with- 
draw the CEGEP’s $25 million account 
from the Bank of Montreal last year, and 
two representatives of the African 
National Congress liberation 
movement, who just happened to be in 
Montreal at the time, were the major 
attractions during the early weeks. 






Determining McGill's holdings in 
South Africa was no easy task, however, 
and it was only in the final weeks of the 


semester that the administration 
disclosed a partial list of its in- 
vestments. 


The list of McGill's 15 largest stock 
holdings showed the university to have 
perhaps the largest South African 
holdings of any Canadian university. 
McGill owns almost $3 million worth of 
common shares of the Royal Bank and 
the Bank of Montreal, companies 
whose direct and indirect participation 
in loans to South Africa runs into the 
hundreds of millions. Investments in 
corporations such as IBM and 3M bring 
total McGill investments in cor- 
porations dealing with South Africa to 
over $10 million. 

At last year’s final Students’ Council 
meeting, Boudreau submitted a report 
on the situation in South Africa, and 
McGill's holdings in that country, and 
moved ‘to demand the immediate 
divestment by the Board of Governors 
of McGill's holdings in South Africa”. 


Said Boudreau: “If an institution of. 


higher learning invests in a repressive 


regime like South Africa, what can we 


expect from a corporation whose 


Determining McGill’s hold- 
ings in South Africa was no 
easy task. 


primary goal is profit?” 
The motion was adopted with a rare 
show of unanimity by Council. 


“Look, mate: you don't hear us complaining, when foreign Investors steal OUR birthright” —. 


The new year meant new goals and 
projects for SAC, and its members 
wasted no time in getting started. The 


committee now served as an umbrella. 


group, comprised of subcommittees in 
charge of information, external liaison 
and political action. 

Its Council-backed resolution sub- 
mitted to the Board of Governors, the 


group realized it would have to 
demonstrate widespread student 
Support for divestment to the ad- 


ministration. 

By late January, Barbara Jenkins’ 
information subcommittee began 
circulating a petition in support of the 
resolution. Still without funds—SAC 
was not granted a budget until 
action sub- 


February—the political 





Off 


Courtesy of ‘The Australlan’ 





committee led by Charles Smith began 


selling ‘McGill students against 
apartheid” buttons of which more than 
1,000 have been sold to date. But SAC's 
biggest project did not debut until 
February 12, when its “Week of 
Solidarity with the people of South 
Africa” kicked off. 

Considered an unqualified success 
by participants, the week featured more 
than a dozen different speakers, films 
and information: and cultural presen- 
tations. Several hundred students 
caught what was in many cases, their 
first glimpse of life in South Africa. 


“if they want profitable in- 
vestments maybe they 
should be selling drugs” 


Keynote speaker Dennis Brutus, a 
political exile and president of the In- 
ternational Campaign against Racism 
in Sports slammed corporations in- 
vesting in his country. 


“if they want profitable investments, ' 


maybe they should be selling drugs, 
setting up bordellos or getting into 
pornographic films. The immorality 
would be the same,” he said. 

Brutus asked the students to oppose 
Canada's complicity with South Africa. 

“What l:ask of you is to help us 
remove this enormous octopus that 
strangles us and of which at least one 
tentacle comes from your country." 


April 2, 1980 


» 





Bishop's professor Cecil Abrahams, 
also a political refugee, told students: 
“Remember, corporations prop up 
apartheid, they help prevent any 
challenge against the system. They are 
there because they know that in- 
vestment in racism is a profitable 
venture. But at the same time they help 


Corporations prop up apar- 
theid, they help prevent any 
change to the system. 


to ensure that the day of liberation will 
be retarded further, and that when it 
eventually comes it won't be a talking 
affair—it will be a bloody affair."’ 

The students took their grievances to 
the Board of Governors on February 
25th. Forty students crowded into a 
board meeting to listen to Students’ 
Society president John MacBain 
present their demands. After five 
montns of procrastinating—a board 
committee report released on October 
15th requested the setting up of a 
committee to deal with the divestment 
issue—the Governors finally relented 
and a six-member standing committee 


on social responsibility was struck. 


On March 17th the four member 
executive of the SAC presented a brief 
to the standing committee which in- 
cluded a showing of the film “Last 
Grave at Dimbaza," an illegally filmed 
exposé on life in South Africa. 

Armed with more than 3,100 
signatures and the official backing of 33 
Campus groups, the SAC represen- 
tatives succeeded in getting committee. 
members to condemn apartheid. They 
would not however concede that 
withdrawing investments”is the right 
way to demonstrate opposition. 

The Social Responsibility Committee 
has yet to announce what recom- 
mendations, if any, it will submit to the 
Board of Governors concerning 
McGill’s investment policy. 

While the principle of divestment has 
met with favor on Campuses across the 
U.S., including such prominent 
universities as Harvard, Princeton and 
Stanford, no Canadian university has 
withdrawn its support for South Africa, 
as of yet. 

Within the past year, student calls for 
divestment at Guelph University and at 
the University of Toronto were rejected 
outright by university governors, who 
declared the rate of return on in- 
vestment to be the sole criteria em- 
ployed in placing investments. 

Prospects at McGill may be better, 


however. All five Students’ Society 
presidential candidates favored 
divestment. SAC executive member 


Barbara Jenkins was elected Un- 
dergraduate Representative to the 
Board of Governors and will press the 
issue there. With the promise of con- 
tinued support from vp external Daniel 
Gaucher, SAC intends to continue its 
activities next year. 

The issue is very straightforward, 
according to SAC members: “Either 
you're for apartheid, or against it—it's a 
matter of principle"’ says Charles Smith. 
And SAC plans to see it through to the 
end, 


page 41/ The McGill Daily 








| Prodding Mc 


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by Richard Goldman and Steven Yudin © 
“South Africa Is attempting to survive 
its present political and economic crisis 
by relying upon massive borrowing 
abroad combined with increasing levels 
of repression at home,” 
-Task Force on the Churches 
and Corporate Responsibility 
“The Board of Governors will undertake 
to see that all investments are socially 
responsible... We will try to deal with 
this issue as honourably and as well as 
we can.” | 
-Chief Justice Alan B. Gold, 
Chairperson of 
McGill Board of Governors 


Following a trend sweeping North 
American campuses, this year McGill 
students undertook for the first time to 
examine the social responsibility of 
their. university’s investment policy. 
Although: much : has been ac- 
complished, the McGill South African 
Committee (SAC) has yet to see the 
light at the end of the tunnel. 

SAC was set up in September by 
McGill Students’ Society with the 
mandate to “determine ways in which 
McGill University: could express its 
displeasure with apartheid.” 


Apartheid is the racist policy of the 


government of South Africa, which 
sees the country’s 20 million blacks 
forcibly separated from the dominant 
white minority and stripped of their 
citizenship and all social and economic 
rights: accompanying it. From the 
workplace to the ordinary park bench, 
blacks are second-class citizens by law. 


They are subject to police harrassment 


at any moment and thousands are 
detained every year without recourse to 
trial, under the provisions of a dense 
web of repressive legislation. 


| ‘ 
si . 


\ - 


» are forced 


Blacks’ average income is 
less than.one seventh of the 
whites’. ~ ; 


Although statistics -belittle their 
plight, United Nations’ figures tell us 
that blacks’ average Income is less than 
one seventh of the whites, that nearly 
half of all black children whose families 
into tribal “bantustan” 
homelands die before. the age of five 


and that the whites enjoy the highest . 


standard of living in the world. 

Apartheid is universally condemned 
by the international community, and 
SAC's mandate was to see what McGill 
students could do to oppose it for, 
though the problem may seem to be at 
the other end of the world, it begins 
right here at home, 


> Western countries, our own included, 


are reaping substantial: profits: from 
investments. in. South Africa. 


Multinational corporations and banks, 


with a strong Canadian representation, 
account for almost $10 billion in direct 
investments in all sectors of the South 
African economy. Investors are at- 
tracted by its tremendous wealth of 
natural resources and the subsistence 
wages that prevail. And McGill's silent 
participation in these companies 
represents tacit) approval of their 
support for apartheid. 

By last October, SAC was beginning 
to take form and chairperson Richard 





increasing every week, The committee 
outlined its initial goals as increasing 
student awareness of the situation In 
South Africa and determining the extent 
of McGill's Investments In the apartheid 
regime. Members :began setting up 
information tables around campus and 
bringing in such speakers as they could 
afford without a budget. à 
Dawson professor Pat Bolland, who 
led the successful campaign.to with- 
draw the CEGEP's $25 million account 
from the Bank of Montreal last year, and 
two representatives of the African 
National Congress liberation 
movement, who just happened to be in 
Montreal at the time, were the major 
attractions during the early weeks. 


South Africa was no easy task, however, 
and it was only in the final weeks of the 
semester that the administration 
disclosed a partial list of its in- 
vestments. ; 

The list of McGill's 15 largest stock 
holdings showed the university to have 
perhaps the largest South African 
holdings of any Canadian: university. 
McGill owns almost $3 million worth of: 
common shares of the Royal Bank and 
the Bank of Montreal, companies 
whose direct and indirect participation 
in loans to South Africa runs into the 
hundreds of millions. Investments in 
corporations such as IBM and 3M bring 
total McGill investments in cor- 
porations dealing with South Africa to 
over $10 million. 

At last year’s final Students’ Council 
meeting, Boudreau submitted a ‘report 
on the situation in South Africa, and 
McGill's holdings in that country, and 
moved “to demand the immediate 
divestment by the Board of Governors 
of McGill's holdings in South Africa”, 


Said Boudreau: “If an institution of. 


higher learning invests in a repressive 


regime like South Africa, what can we 


expect from ‘a corporation whose 


Determining McGill’s hold- 
ings in South Africa was no 
easy task. | 

primary goal is profit?” 


The motion was adopted with a rare 
show of unanimity by Council. 
ra 


“Look, mate: you don't hear us complaining, when foreign investors steol OUR birthrighil'” 7. 


Determining  McGill's holdings in. 


\ 


rill’s conscience _ 


Boudreau ‘saw the turnout at meetings - 


The new year meant new goals and 
projects for SAC, and its members 
wasted no time in getting started. The 
committee now served as an umbrella} 
group, comprised of subcommittees in 
charge of information, external liaison 
and political action. 

Its Council-backed resolution sub- 
mitted to the Board of Governors, the 
group. realized it would have to 
demonstrate widespread student 
Support for divestment to the ad- 
ministration. 

By late January, Barbara Jenkins’ 
Information subcommittee began 
circulating a petition in support of the 
resolution. Still without funds—SAC 
was not granted a budget until, 
action sub- 


February—the political 








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committee led by Charles Smith began 
selling ‘McGill students against 
apartheld” buttons of which more than’ 
1,000 have been sold to date. But SAC's 
biggest project did not debut until 
February 12, when its ‘Week. of 
Solidarity with the people of South 
Africa” kicked off. | 
Considered an unqualified success 
by participants, the week featured more 
than a dozen different speakers, films 
and information: and cultural presen- 
tations. Several hundred students 


caught what was in many cases, their | 


first glimpse of life in South Africa. 


“If they want profitable in- 
vestments maybe they 
should be selling drugs” 


ESS ee 

‘Keynote speaker Dennis Brutus, a 
political exile and president of the In- 
ternational Campaign against Racism 
in Sports slammed corporations in- 
vesting in his country. 


“If they want profitable investments, : 


maybe they should be selling drugs, 
setting up bordellos or getting into 
pornographic films. The immorality 
would be the same,” he said. 
- Brutus asked the students to oppose 
Canada's complicity with South Africa. 
“What |: ask of you Is to help us 
remove this enormous octopus. that 
strangles us and of which at least one 
tentacle comes from your country.” 


April 2, 1980 


present 


Bishop's professor Cecil Abrahams,. 


also a political refugee, told students: 
“Remember, corporations prop up 
apartheid, they help prevent any 
challenge against the system. They are 
there because they know that in- 
vestment in racism is a profitable 
venture. But at the same time they help 


Corporations prop up-apar- 
theid, they help prevent any 
change to the system. 


to ensure that the day of liberation will 
be retarded further, and that when it 
eventually comes it won't be a talking 
affair—it will be a bloody affair." 

_ The students took their grievances to 
the Board of Governors on February 
25th. Forty students crowded into a 
board meeting to listen to Students’ 
Society president John MacBain 
their demands. After five 
montns of procrastinating—a board 
committee report released on October 
15th requested the setting up of a 
committee to deal with the divestment 
Issue—the Governors finally relented 
and a six-member standing committee 


on social responsibility was struck, 
On March 17th the four member - 


executive of the SAC presented a brief 
to the standing committee which in- 
cluded a showing of the film ‘Last 
Grave at Dimbaza,”’ an illegally filmed 


. exposé on life in South Africa. | 


Armed with more than 3,100 
Signatures and the official backing of 33 
campus groups, the SAC represen- 
tatives succeeded in getting committee. 
members to condemn apartheid. They 
would not however concede that 
withdrawing investments~is the right 
way to demonstrate opposition. 

The Social Responsibility Committee 
has yet to announce what recom- 
mendations, if any, it will submit to the 
Board of Governors concerning 
McGill's investment policy. 

While the principle of divestment has 
met with favor on campuses across the 
U.S., , including such: prominent 
universities as Harvard, Princeton and 


Stanford, no Canadian university has. 


withdrawn its support for South Africa, 
as of yet. 

Within the past year, student calls for 
divestment at Guelph University and at 
the University of Toronto were rejected 
outright by university governors, who 
declared the rate of return on in- 
vestment to be the sole criteria em- 
ployed in placing investments. 

Prospects at McGill may be better, 
however. All five Students’ Society 
presidential candidates favored 
divestment. SAC executive member 
Barbara Jenkins was elected Un- 
dergraduate Representative to the 
Board of Governors and will press the 


issue there. With the promise of con- : 


tinued support from vp external Daniel 
Gaucher, SAC intends to continue ‘its 
activities next year. 

The issue is very straightforward, 
according to SAC members: ‘Either 
you're for apartheid, or against it—it’s a 
matter of principle” says Charles Smith. 
And SAC plans to see it through to the 


end. 


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Energy question confusing but answer clear 


by Jill Welch 
Q; FOE itself strongly endorses 
an energy policy called the Soft 


= Energy Path. What is that? 
A: Soft energy is, obviously . 


contrasted with hard energy, 
‘and is a funny term. Some 
people say that has all the 
wrong sexual connotations. We 
’ still, think. that term makes 
sense. Soft energy has come to 
include that approach to 
energy which depends on more 
decentralized kinds of: sources, 
. rather than large centralized 
- sources. Now large centralized 
sources would be represented 
by a big power plant, or by one- 
field dominated. large - oil 
‘ sources. 
So we're looking for more 

decentralized sources, we're 
” looking for sources that are. 
renewable, rather than non- 
renewable; we're looking for 
sources that are en- 
vironmentally benign. 

They are also sources that 
are subject to local control, we 


think that's a very important 7 


thing that has been lost from 
our energy future, the loss of 
people's ability to control thelr 
own energy sources, just as 
we've lost control of our food 
sources. It’s a very important 
-loss of power, it has tremen- 
dous Implications for capital In 
_ the economy, local economies, 
capital sources, imports, things 
of that kind. 

It also means (and | guess 
these are more part of the 
mecessary conditions) soft 
energy sources, to use the 
jargon, are matched In scale 
and in quality to the: user's 
needs. 


| | What _ that means | is: that 
nobody wants energy — | mean 
nobody wants BTUs, or 


kilojoules; you wouldn't even. 


want electricity or oll. What you 
want is to be warm, to be able 
to get from pisce to place, to. 


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have your hi-fi play, and'at a 
.constant’ speed — things of 
that kind. 

There's also the notion of 
matching in scale. It doesn't 
make economic or ther- 
modynamic sense for that 
matter to have huge power 
plants to provide energy that Is 
used in little bits all around the 
economy. So matching in scale 


fairly long answer — It depends 
on the time frame — how hard 


you want to push, on the 
system. | think you're ab- 
solutely right when you say It’s 
a change in thinking — not so 
much by people but by 


governments, and by industry. 


The whole thrust of the _in- 
dustrial revolution has been to 
replace activity. with more 


DAVID BROOKS is an energy expert’— a 
physicist and an economist. He is now working 
with Energy Probe and is director of Friend of 
the Earth-Canada. FOE is not a political lobby 
group — but it can and does educate people 
about the merits of what it calls the Soft Energy 
Path. And if some of those people happen to be 


politicians, all the better. Soft Energy is a term . 


we'll be hearing a lot more about in the next few 


years. 


‘and matching in economy is a 
part of soft paths. This Is ob- 
viously contrasted with large, 


centralized, capital-intesive 
high. technology hard energy. 
> It’s a long answer | know, but all 
of this is Involved in the notion 
of what is a soft energy path. 

. It: has a lot of value 
statements. as well: as 
technologic statements. 
Q: That's something quite 
radically different from what we 
have.now — that's asking for a 
fairly radical change in thinking 


~ on energy. Is that also going to 


involve “a radical. change in 
lifestyle? 
A: That also necessitates a 


Today 





English Literature Association: 
Important general meeting 


. today at 3 p.m. On agenda: 
question and answer session 


with candidates, 


course 
evaluations, 


party. « Elections 


Thursday 12 p.m. to 3 p.m. Arts 


- B-20. 


‘Disarmament Rally: 
Speakers Eric .Kierang. and 


… Murray Thomson’ of Project 


Ploughshares, Sunday, April 
13th at Queen Mary United 
Church, 13. nC ey Hamp: 
stead. 


McGill Referendum Com: 
mittee: 

Wrap-up meeting tonight at 7 
p.m. in room 107 of the Student 
Union Bldg. Report of financial 
Standing and summary - of 


£ 


‘p.m. 





energy, more material, and to 
find that In. non-renewable 
capital-intensive big ~ sources. 
So it's a real change. of 


‘thinking. 


As far as the consumer and 
citizen is concerned, it isn't 
such a change in the near term. 
People react very well to the 
idea of soft energy. It has a lot 
of appeal, it fits in with | think 
particularly Canadian values, 
towards : self-reliance, In- 
dependence, community and 
finding public approaches to 
doing things, while large blocks 
of capital or large blocks of 
political power aren't really 
suiting’us well. It fits into a 


activities. All welcome. 
Students’ Council Meeting: 
Today - 5:30 - room 310. All 
students are welcome! 

McGill Cycling Club: 

Meeting today at 5:00 p.m. in 
the Union room B01. All 
members and other assorted 
“bikies” are urged to attend. 


Film as an Instrument in 


Research and Teaching: 
Dr. Hans-Karl Galle, Director of 
the Institute for Scientific Film 


In Gôttingen, will give a lecture 
‘at McGill University on “Film as 


a Medium for Scholarly 
Research and Teaching”, 
tonight at 8:00 p.m. in room 821 
of the Leacock Bldg. Everyone 
invited. 

Liberal McGill:  . 

General meeting today at 5:00 
in Union room 301. 
Everyone welcome. 

: THURSDAY, APRIL 3 
Department of Anthropology at 
McGill: - 

Presents Prof. Dierdre 
Machado, speaking on “Cape 


Verdean Ethnicity in Two 
Political. Contexts”, 4 p.m., 
Leacock 738. 


April 2, 1980 


SVG pmstiqre 


“— back: up .on our 


thrust ‘that’s maybe been latent 
since World War Il, but Is still a 
very real power in the Canadian 
oolitical frame. — 

When | say we can do these 
things I'm talking not just 
technologically but in the 
sense that it would save 
money. They're economically 
feasible, they make very good 
sense because they're 
inflationary, they produce jobs 
(that's another whole field) just 
in terms of cost payoff they 
make sense. 

However, sooner or later, 
lifestyle issues do have to be 
faced, and they have to be 


faced In a couple of ways — we 


should be talking about them. 
What do we want .from our 
system?. We're not talking 
about dramatic changes — | 
just get tercibly frsutrated when 
people say “well we had a 
conserver society when we 
grew up, it was called. the 
depression"; or, “| know what 
the conserver society is like — 
that's outhouses and carrying 
water". Nobody is talking about 
that — people who say that are 
elther lying or nalve. We're 
talking about either a little bit 
less or a little bit more, and the 
question Is are we willing to 
energy 
demands, say to the level of the 
mid-1960's, (which were half 
what they are today by the 
way). -Are we willing to have 
smaller cars, just to get 
around?. Are we willing to 


adjust our schedules to do, say, 


clothes washing at night rather 
than at peak hours, those sorts 
of things. 

And are we ready to accept 
lower income growth? 

Then you would have no 
problem at all staying with the 
soft energy path. . Those 
relatively minor lifestyle 
changes plus raising some 
questions about income growth 
gives you, as far as you care to 


see in the future, the ability to : 


stick with soft paths. 
If however, you want to go 
the other way, if that’s not 


acceptable, then you're forced 


to a nuclear economy. That's 
the real question — and it’s a 
political debate of the first 
order of importance. 

- Q: The problem doesn't seem 
to be at all with the consumer, 
or. with the individual, 
problem is with governments 
deciding to ‘make these 
changes. : What's your ex- 
perience of government at- 
titudes” toward. energy ? 

A: One always has the 
problem at the political level, 
when you're talking long-range, 
governments are not designed 
to be long-range. Not since 
we've. had: monarchies. 
inherent problem of democracy 
is that it has to be re-elected, 
and that always tends toward 
the short-run. The governments 
have to do two: things — 
they've begun to do only one of 
them. The first thing they have 


less : 


the. 


An 


to do is actually provide the 
institutions for changing 
consumption patterns, that is, 
regulations for smaller cars, 
assistance programs for home- 
“heating, for insulating houses, 
building codes, very concrete 
specific things, that Involve 
either limitations or efficiency 
regulations or providing money 
_to people. They’ve begun to do 
that sort of thing. 

Let me amend that and say 
there are three things — the 
second thing they have to do is 
get energy prices up. 

On the third, we haven't 
advanced at all. That Is to 
create a debate about the ‘long : 
run’. Because'in many ways the 
long-run in energy is here now. 

ou've got tO make some 
rather fundamental | choices. | 
. That's what's not happening at 
all, and none of the parties 
want to touch this Issue 
because it splits them wide 
apart. You can create kind of a 
party consensus on oil pricing, 
or on multinationals, , or on 
exports — you can get a 
platform. If you start to talk 
about what direction we're 
going to go, or talk about the 
role of nuclear after the year 
2000, then you split each of the 
major political parties wide 
open. 

Q: To what extent have those 
decisions already been made? 

A: | have. sort ofa .non- 
Machiavellan, non-plot theory 
of government, which is that 
each group does what comes 
naturally to it. And what's 
been happening with lots of 
little decisions over time, is 
that one door is being opened 
slowly and the other door is 
belng closed slowly. We've 
never had a debate about that. 
We never asked, “Is that what 
‘we want to do?” But | don't 
think it's because a decision 
has been taken. 

Some of us are desperately 
trying to throw monkey 
wrenches into that system to 
prop the doors open. Maybe 
you can see groups like Energy 
Probe having one of its goals to 
slow that process down, to step 
in and block: things like the 
macKenzie Valley pipeline, to: 
stem the growth of nuclear 
Capacity, until we have time to 

‘have a debate. Maybe we'll 
lose, maybe the public will say 
look, we want energy at our 
fingertips, as much as we want, 
whenever we want. If the public 
says that, then the logic says 
nuclear — and understand.that 
means a loss of local control,. 


“understand that it means we'll 


have a bureaucracy running our 
energy system for us, and lots 
of other things, including the 
proliferation of nuclear health 
hazards. If the public Is willing 
to accept that, then we've 
simply lost the political debate. 
But | want to make sure we lose 
dt in a political debate, not lose 
It by a series of implicit 
decisions, where no one has 
ever played a role. 


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dre nos droits”, quelque 


300 étudiants de l'UQAM ont manifesté jeudi dernier devant le 
bureau du premier ministre pour exprimer leur mécontentment 
face à la politique d’inscription, l'absence de reconnaissance de 


leur association et la tutelle en ARC. Organisée par l'ANEQ, la 
manifestation regroupalt aussi des étudiants de cégeps. 






UQAM... 
suite de la 

PAG EUGAK co visalent nulle- 
ment à “imposer” la grève a 
tous les étudiants. Au nombre 
de 6,. celles-ci comprenalent 


entre autres une journée d'é-- 


tude pour étudier les revendica- 
tions, l'adoption de moyens de, 
pression et de harcèlement tels 
l'occupation et l'exigence que 
l'administration adopte officiel- 
lement une politique d'inscrip- 


_ tion conforme aux demandes 


de l'association et s'engage de 
bonne fol dans les négocia- 
tions. 
Pour ce qui est du boycot- 


_ tage Illimité des cours, Il était 


bel et bien précisé que le vote 
devait être pris en assemblée 
modulaire et que, le cas 
échéant, il ne liait que le 


- module concerné. : 


Les étudiants de gestion 


_ s'insurgent contre le principe 


des assemblées modulaires 
qui, selon son président Serge 
Lusignan, ne donnent que 4 
votes aux 4700 étudiants de 
leur famille lors des plénières 
inter-modulaires (PIM) par rap- 
port aux 12 des 3000’étudiants 
de sciences humaines. Quol- 


- quills disent représenter tous 


L'association attaque sévèrement l’université 


PAGEUQAM réagit aux 


| ‘‘évènements”” de lundi soir 


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par Denis Gascon Si 
Suite à l'assemblée générale 
de lundi, l'AGEUQAM a exigé la 
révocation du: vice-recteur à 
l'enseignement et à la recher- 
che Michel Leclerc à cause de 
son refus obstiné de négocier 
et à ce que les étudiants 
_appellent “sa mauvause fol": : 
Les étudiants. mentionnent 
entre autres que ce dernier 


- aurait constamment reporté les 
- négociations prévues avec les 


représentants étudiants et qu'il 
aurait même annulé les rencon- 
tres de lundi quand Il a su que 


les étudiants d'administration 
“et de gestion “s’organisalent”. - 


en vue de l'assemblée générale. 


L'AGEUQAM considère en 


effet que les évènements de 


lundi sont en partie imputables 


* a l'administration de l'UQAM: 


Les conflits entre les étudiants 
de sciences de la gestion. et 
ceux des autres départements 
permettent, aux dires du secré- 
taire Jean-Marie Vézina, de 
créer un rapport de force au 
sein même des étudiants et, de 
ce fait, d'empêcher tout forme 
de négociation entre l'UQAM et 


\ l'AGEUQAM. 


“Ce qui se passe, fait partie 
du jeu de l'UQAM. Bien sûr 
-VAESG y est pour beaucoup 
mals. la polarisation qui se 
forme à l'université fait l'affaire 
de l'UQAM et elle s'arrange 


| pour qu'il persiste,” précise 





Vézina. 

Quant au comportement des 
étudiants de gestion, Vézina 
l'explique en partie. par l'ensel- 


gnement qu'ils recoivent, “un 


-enselgnement qui:les pousse à 


gérer la société plutôt qu'à 
l'améliorer et la changer.” 


“ls sont les marionnettes de> 


l'administration de l'UQAM. Et 
cette dernière et les profes- 
seurs sont la cause principale 
de ce qu'on a vu lundi! 
d'ajouter Vézina. 

D'ailleurs, les professeurs de 
la famille de gestion avalent 
apparemment canceller leurs 
cours lundi soir afin de permet- 


tre aux étudiants ‘d'assister’ à 


l'assemblée. | 


Ce que Vézina trouve particu- 
llèrement incompréhensible et 
inacceptable c'est que ces 
étudiants ne veulent même pas 
laisser les autres se battre pour 
leurs droits. Ils veulent miner 
toute forme de débat, dit-il. 

“Ces étudiants qui aujourd'- 
hui veulent tout simplement 
éliminer une association étudi- 
ante, ce sont les mêmes: qui 
demain briseront les syndicats 
de leur entreprise. Ils ne font 
que se faire la main,” souligne 
Vézina. L'association verra: 
Sous peu quels moyens d'ac- 
tion doivent ‘être pris pour 
régler ce problème qui les 


-empéchent de fonctionner: de- 


puis le début de l'année. 
L'AGEUQAM a aussi déclaré 
qu'elle demanderait au gouver- 
nement d'instituer une enquête 
sur. les agissements de la 
direction dans le conflit sur la 
reconnaissance et le finance- 
ment de l'association générale. 
D'autre part, l'AGEUQAM 


croit qu’une assemblée comme 
celle: de lundi, où le côté 
fasciste et antidémocratique de 
certains étudiants ne faisait 
aucun doute, ne peut qu'avoir 
un effet de mobilisation et de 
polarisation encore plus accen- 
tuée. D'allleurs, déjà hier; les 
étudiants d'histoire et d'éco- 


.nomlie, visiblement choqués 


par l'attitude des étudiants de 
gestion et par l'instransigence 
perpétuelle de l'administration, 
ont voté dans leur -assemblée 
locale pour la grève générale 
ilimitée. Et il appert que le 
mouvement prendra rapide- 
ment une importante ampleur 
au cours des prochaines jours. 
Ecoeurés et désabusés par le 
déroulement de l'assemblée où 
le groupe de “gestion” ne visait 
qu'à faire obstacle à l'AGEU— 
QAM, les membres de l'exécu- 
tif ont décidé de fonctionner 
plutôt par le bials de la plénière 
Intermodulaire et des assoclia- 
tions locales pour le moment. 
La tension entre les deux 


“tendances” étudiantes a en: 


effet atteint un tel point que 
toute nouvelle provocation 
pourrait entraMer des affronte- 
ments ouverts. : Depuis déjà 
plusieurs semaines, les “sci- 
ences de la gestion” se comp- 
laisent dans des actions de 
type fascistes comme des raids 
sur le campus pour jeter aux 
poubelles les journaux de 
l'AGEUQAM, arracher leurs af- 
fiches et noyauter leurs as- 
semblées générales. Et tout 
cela, pour dénoncer l'absence 
de démocratie à l'AGEUQAM... 


April 2, 1980 





les modules-de leur famille, il 
appert qu'au moins deux des 


cinq éprouvent plus qu'une. 


certaine : sympathie 
l'association générale. 

Mettant de l'avant un projet 
de fédération qu'on sait proche 
des positions de l'administra- 
tion de l'UQAM mais dont les 


pour 


modalités ne sont pas encore : 


arrêtées, l'AESG rejette 
l'AGEUQAM': qu'elle qualifie 
“d'organisation de gauchistes 
qui ne tiennent qu'à promouvoir 
un idéal politique.” Elle ajoute 
aussi que l'AGEUQAM est 
“financée par des organismes 
extérieurs” et que son journal 
est imprimé aux ‘presses 
marxistes-léninistes’’.  Lor- 
squ’interrogé sur les fon- 
dements de. ces accusations, 
Lusignan est resté muet... 
pour étudier et que la ‘somme 
de travail exigée ne leur permet 
pas, comme les étudiants de 
Sciences humaines, de ‘jouer! à 
perdre leur session et à faire 
des grèves”. Ils précisent que, 
pour eux, un baccalauréat se 
fait en trois ans et qu’ils ne sont 
pas prêts à l'étendre sur cinq 
ans comme le font ‘‘ceux de 
l'AGEUQAM". | 

Au moment de l'ajourne- 


ment, les étudiants de gestion 


avalent déjà présenté deux 
propositions visant à ajouter à 
l'ordre du jour un point “recon- 
naissance”. Cette manoeuvre 
visait vraisemblablement à for- 
cer.’ Ja dissolution de 
l'AGEUQAM par une motion de 
non-reconnaissance. 

Les demandes de l'AGEUQAM 

Les griefs étudiants concer- 
nant la reconnaissance et le 
financement de l'AGEUQAM, la 
politique d'inscription et la 
tutelle en ARC restent. donc 
toujours irrésolus suite a cette 
assemblée générale. 

Pour ce qui est du module 
d'ARC, les étudiants deman- 
dent la levée de.la tutelle viellle 
de près d'un an et exigent le 
retrait du gel des inscriptions et 
de la fermeture anticipée du 
programme. Quant à la politi- 
que d'inscription, bien que 
l'administration alt renoncé à 
son projet “d'informatisation 
de l'inscription’' et soit revenue 
au statu quo pour au moins 
douze mois, les étudiants 
exigent des garanties écrites et 
officielles concernant ce mora- 
toire, garanties qui devralent 
rencontrer les demandes des 


étudiants. La nouvelle poli: 
tique, on le sait, a- 
bolissait entre autres les : 


nait la période de changement : 


de cours et resserrait considé- 
rablement le calendrier de 
paiement des frais de scolarité. 

Le litige principal a toujours 
trait à la reconnalssance et au 
financement de l'association 


générale. Partant du fait qu'elle : 


a adopté une politique de 
reconnaissance des assocla- 
tions étudiantes en mal dernier, 
l'administration se refuse à 
reconnaître toute association 
qui ne se plie pas aux critères 
de représentativité et aux pro- 
cédures qu'elle a elle-même 


fixées. 
De leur côté, les étudiants ne 


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veulent pas souscrire’ à cette 


politique qu'ils jugent antidé- 
mocratique. Tout d'abord, ils 


-considèrent l'articié qui stipule 


que ‘l'association doive faire 
connaître ses buts à l'adminis- 
tration avant d'être reconnue" 
et que “ces buts soient confo- 
rmes à ceux de l'université" 
comme de “l'ingérence dans les 
affaires étudiantes et du pater- 
nalisme outrancier”. 

D'autre part, les modalités 
régissant la reconnaissance 
sont, aux dires des étudiants, 
inacceptables. L'administration 
exige en effet qu'une associa- 
tion gagne l'appui de la moitié 
des 63 modules pour obtenir 
la reconnaissance officielle, Or, 
précise les étudiants, 20 des 63 
associations recensées sont ou 
des associations d'étudiants 
gradués ou des certificats. Et, 
dans les statuts de l'AGEUQAM 
et aussi dans la tradition de 
l'université, les quelques étudi- 
ants de mañtrise et de doctorat 
sont représentés par la même 
association de module que 
ceux du premier cycle. Pour ce 
qui est des certificats, 
l'AGEUQAM mentionne que 
l'administration de l'UQAM ne 
les a pas tous inscrit comme 
assemblées modulaires indé- 
pendantes mais qu'elle en a : 
plutôt ‘ “judicieusement ‘choisi 
quelques-uns”, notamment en 
science de la gestion où les : 
étudiants sont connus pour 
leur opposition à l'AGEUQAM. 
Ces sont donc 20 associations 


‘‘Inexistantes’’, dit 
l'AGEUQAM. 
Par ailleurs, les étudiants 


soulignent que le projet de 
financement de l'AGEUQAM a 
déjà recueilli l'assentiment des 
24 associations modulaires 
consultées et qu'il a été ratifié: 
en assemblée générale. Le 
projet prévoit une cotisation de 
$5 par session pour tout 
étudiant inscrit à l'UQAM: et 
que 60% des sommes perçues 
iront dans les cottres ae 
l'association générale, la: ba- 
lance étant répartie entre les 
différents modules. 

Et quoique le projet d'entente 
UQAM-AGEUQAM  obtienne 
l'appui de la majorité des 
assoclations modulaires même 
selon les critères de l'admini- 
stration (37 sur 63), l'UQAM 
refuse toujours d'entreprendre 
des négociations avec l'associ- 
ation. 





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Depuis plus de 50 ans maintenant, le 
Canada réalise qu'il se doit, sinon de 
rapatrier la constitution de l'Acte de 
l'Amérique du Nord Britannique 
(AANB), vieille de 113 ans, au moins d'y 
Inclure une formule de révision cons- 
titutionnelle. 

Mais depuis tout ce temps, les ten- 
tatives du Qouvernement fédéral de 
proposer un amendement sol-disant 


par Plerre Shanks 


équitable pour toutes les provinces se 
sont terminées brusquement par un 
“non” de la province de Québec. Il est 
même arrivé que d'autres provinces 
s'opposent aux propositions fédérales 
(en 1962 par exemple, la Saskatchewan 
s’opposa à la formule Fulton). On a tout 
proposé au Québec, du droit de veto pur 
et simple à un droit de veto plus ar- 
ticulé, moins évident. Celui-ci a toujours 
refusé. Pourquoi? : 

Quels: sentiments ont poussé le 
Québec à ne jamais pouvoir se 
satisfaire des ‘offres fédérales"? 
Pourquoi ne vient-on pas à s'entendre, 
au Canada, sur une formule d'amen:- 
dement constitutionnel, alors que c'est 
chose faite admirablement bien dans 
presque toutes les autres fédérations 
du monde? 


LA FRANCE 


En France, ‘la procédure de révision 


subordonne l'adoption définitive du 
texte soit à l'approbation d'un 
“congrès”, qui n'est autre que 


l'Assemblée Nationale (qui réunit en un 
seul organe le Sénat et la Chambre des 
députés), soit à l'approbation du 
peuple, consulté par rétérendum. 
L'option entre ces deux solutions ap- 
partient au gouvernement qui se trouve 
ainsi doté d'un pouvoir politique im- 
portant. Dans-le détail, la procédure 
comporte trois étapes: 
1) L'initiative: elle appartient soit au 
Président de la République, soit aux 
membres du Parlement. D'une part, 
aucune procédure de révision ne peut 
être engagée ou.poursuivie lorsqu'il est 
porté atteinte à l'intégrité du territoire. 
D'autre part, la forme républicaine du 
gouvernement ne peut faire l'objet 
d'une proposition de révision. 
2) Le vote du projet ou de la proposition 
par les chambres: celui-ci se 
caractérise par une procédure très 
souple, aucune condition spéciale de 
majorité n'étant imposée, con- 
trairement à ce qui existait sous les Ille 
et IVe Républiques (il fallait alors une 
majorité absolue dans chaque cham- 
bre). Une différence existe cependant 
par rapport au vote des lois, ou il faut 
nécessairement l'accord des 2 
chambres. 
3) La dernière étape comporte une 
option au choix du gouvernement, entre 
le référendum et l'approbation par le 
congrès (composé par la réunion en 
commun es 2 chambres). Le 
référendum est la procédure normale, le 
recours au congrès apparaissant 
comme l'exception. Si la procédure du 
congrès est acceptée, le projet de 
révision doit être approuvé à la majorité 
des 3/5; mais celle-ci est calculée sur 
les suffrages ‘exprimés, et non sur le 
nombre: des membres composant le 
congrès. 

Cette. formule d'amendement s'ap- 


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à caractère mi-présidentiel; mi- 
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_régime parlementaire comme celui du 


Canada, où le type parlementaire existe 
non seulement dans le caractère, mais 
autant dans la structure même du 
politiques de l'Etat. 

En ce qui concerne le vote du projet 
par les chambres, il faudrait considérer 
qu'il existe 11 gouvernements au 
Canada. Par ailleurs, la présence du 
Sénat canadien dans cette procédure 
apparaît fort contestable, car celui-ci a 
perdu depuis longtemps toute im- 
portance “pratique” dans les décisions 
politique de l'Etat. 

Finalement, la dernière expérience 
d'un référendum à l'échelle canadienne 
fut loin d'être un stimulant à l'unité du 
Canada. C'était au cours de la dernière 
guerre mondiale, quand le premier 
ministre du pays, M. Mackenzie King, 
commanda un référendum pour se 
décharger de sa promesse de ne pas 
imposer la conscription aux Canadiens, 
lors de sa campagne électorale de 1939. 

La population québécoise, qui vota 
en très grande majorité contre la 
décharge de cette promesse, dut se 
plier à l'opinion générale canadienne, 
majoritairement favorable à cette 
décharge, car partout ailleurs on ap- 
puyait l'enrôlement obligatoire. Le 
fameux référendum passa et quelques 
mois plus tard le fédéral imposait la 
conscription, au grand mécon- 
tentement des Québécois. 

C'est pourquoi, du point de vue d'un 
fédéraliste, la procédure référendaire 
apparaît inadéquate dans la con- 
joncture actuelle, car elle apporterait 


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p us de désunion que d'unanimité au 
sein des citoyens canadiens. Elle ex- 
poserait manifestement la grande 
faiblesse du lien fédéral canadien et 
aurait pour conséquence d'alimenter le 


sentiment nationaliste québécois et. 


d'activer le processus de libération 
politique du Québec. 


JAPON 


Tout amendement à la constitution 
japonaise doit être proposé par le 
“Diet.” Le Diet constitue l'organe de 
pouvoir le plus élevé de l'Etat et il 
comprend 2 chambres: celle des 
Représentants (qui compte 484 
membres) et celle des Conseillers (250 
membres), Les 2 chambres doivent se 
montrer favorables à l'amendement par 
un vote exprimant l'accord d'au moins 
2/3 des membres dans chacune d'entre 
elles. 

Dans un deuxième temps, l'amen- 
dement est soumis au peuple par 
référendum spécial ou à l'occasion 
d'une élection quelconque. Si la 
majorité l'emporte, il revient à l'Em- 
pereur de promulguer l'amendement au 
nom du peuple, comme faisant 
dorénavant partie intégrante de la 
constitution. 

On retrouve ici une structure de 
gouvernement qui s'apparente avec 
celle de la France. L'Empereur joue un 
peu le rôle du Président, et même si‘on 
peut parler d'une séparation des 
pouvoirs (entre les 3 organes prin- 


cipaux), il n'en reste pas moins que. 


l'Empereur et le Diet ne forment qu'un 
seul et unique palier de gouvernement. 

Donc, pour les mêmes raisons que la 
France, la formule d'amendement 
japonaise ne convient pas au régime 
parlementaire canadien. 


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ll s'agit de l'article 146 du chapitre de 
la constitution de l'Union des 
républiques soviétiques socialistes. 


En URSS, un amendement à la 


constitution “est appliqué seulement 
d'après la décision du Conseil 
Suprême, une fois que chacune des 
chambres l'a adopté avec une majorité 
d'au moins les 2/3. 

En d'autres termes, l'initiative d'une 
procédure appartient 
Supréme, qui fait ratifier l'amendement 


par chacune des 2 chambres (Conseil , 


de l'Union et Conseil des Nationalités), 
qu'il contrôle au préalable. 

Démocratie autoritaire fondée sur la 
souveraineté -populaire, où l'opinion 
dirigée et le contrôle absolu écarte le 
peuple du processus de révision cons- 
titutionnelle, l'URSS présente une 
formule non seulement inadéquate, 
mais inacceptable ‘pour un régime 
“décentralisé" comme le nôtre. 


SUISSE 


. En Suisse, la révision partielle peut 
avoir lieu par la vole de l'initiative 
populaire, soit dans les réformes 
statuées par la législation fédérale, 
L'initiative populaire consiste en une 
demande présentée par 50,000 citoyens 
suisses ayant le droit de vote. La 
demande d'initiative peut revêtir la 
forme d'une pror: n concue en 


termes générau: d'un projet - 
rédigé de toute: 

Lorsque la co ative est 
conçue en it: ux, les 
chambres fédétc s l'ap- 
prouvent, prcéder: Avision 
partielle dans le s: et en 
soumettront le projet : ou au 
rejet du peuple et c Les 2 
chambres sont compec : ‘abord * & 
d'un Conseil Nationa! int 200 
députés du. peuple si: et d'un 


Conseil des Etats formé de 44 députés 
des cantons. 

Si, au contraire, les chambres 
fédérales ne l'approuvent pas, la 
question de la révision partielle sera 
soumise au suffrage du peuple; si la 
majorité des citoyens suisses prenant 
part à la votation se prononce dans 
l'affirmative, l'Assemblée 
procédera à la révision en se con- 
formant à la décision populaire. 

Lorsque la demande revéte la forme 
d'un projet rédigé de toutes pièces, et 
que l'Assemblée fédérale lui donne son 
approbation, le projet est soumis à 
l'adoption ou au rejet du peuple et des 
cantons. Si l'Assemblée fédérale n'est 
pas d'accord, elle peut élaborer un 
projet distinct ou 
peuple le rejet du projet proposé et 
soumettre à la votation son contre- 
projet ou sa proposition de rejet, en 
même temps que le projet qui émane de 
l'initiative populaire. 

La constitution fédérale révisée ou la 
partie révisée. de la constitution entre 


en vigueur lorsqu'elle a été acceptée ~ 


par la majorité des citoyens suisses 
prenant part à la votation et par la 
majorité des Etats. Le résultat de la 
votation populaire dans chaque canton 
est considéré comme le vote de l'Etat. 
L'étendue des pouvoirs de contrôle 


du peuple sur les assemblées jointe à -R 


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l'organe délibérant rend la formule 
suisse fort attirante. Spécialement 
parce que ce processus accorde une 
large part d'initiative au peuple, tout 
autant que son pouvoir décisionnel. 

Pour être reconnu, l'amendement doit 
être approuvé par la majorité du peuple 
suisse et la majorité des cantons. Au 
Canada, l'expérience du référendum de 
Mackenzie King en 1942 s'est avérée 
fort malheureuse, comme on sait. La 
même histoire risquerait de se 
reproduire advenant l'application de la 
formule suisse. . 

La seule solution serait d'exiger un 
vote affirmatif par une majorité ae 
citoyens dan chacune des 10 
provinces. Par contre, cette exigence 
rendrait la formule extrêmement rigide; 
chaque amendément important se 
verrait relégué aux oubliettes, dans la 
mesure ou Il interviendrait 
négativement dans les intérêts de l'une 
ou l'autre des deux nations aites 
canadiennes, 


ALLEMAGNE DE 
L'OUEST 


La constitution de l'Allemagne de 
l'Ouest prévoit une formule d'amen- 
dement a l'article 79. Cet article stipule 
que l'amendement doit être présenté 
Sous la forme d'une loi votée par les 2 
fédérales; Bundestag et 
Bundesrat. Pour qu'il soit accepté, les 
membres de chacune de ces 2 cham- 
bres doivent se prononcer 
favorablement avec une majorité des 
2/3. 

Les membres de la chambre du 
Bundestag, appelée la chambre basse, 


‘sont élus par le peuple en général et 


représentent proportionnellement le 
peuple en général, alors que ceux du 
Bundesrat, la chambre haute, sont des 
représentants élus de chacun des Etats 
(appelés Lander). 

En théorie, les Etats en tant que tels 
sont tenus à l'écart du processus de 
révision, mais en pratique ils défendent 
leurs intérêts par l'entremise de leurs 
représentants à la chambre haute 
(Bundesrat). 


I y a, dans la constitution de 


_ l'Allemagne fédérale, plusieurs articles 


qui ne peuvent être amendés, notam- 


.ment ceux concernant les droits in- 


dividuels fondamentaux, les droits.des 
Etats ainsi que les partages des 
différentes pouvoirs. 

Tout comme dans le système suisse, 
le peuple possède un pouvoir 
d'initiative, Une proposition d'amen:- 
dement peut être présentée au Reichtag 
moyennant l'appui de 1/10 de l'élec- 
torat. Par la suite il s'agit de la même 
procédure qu'en Suisse. 

Le Québec, qui se retrouverait en 
minorité dans les 2 chambres, ne 
pourrait accepter un tel pacte de 
révision constitutionnelle. 


AUSTRALIE 


La formule d'amendement cons- 
titutionnelle de l'Australie diffère un 
peu de celle de l'Allemagne. 

Toute modification doit obtenir 
l'appui d'une majorité absolue dfans 
chacune des 2 chambres du parlement 
fédéral. Un référendum doit aussi être 
tenu entre le 2e et le 6e mois suivant 
l'adoption de la proposition par les 2 


chambres, et nécessite l'accord de la 
majorité des citoyens en général ainsi 
que dans la majorité des Etats. 

En 80 ans, seulement 8 amendements 
furent apportés à la constitution sur 
environ 60 référendum. C'est peu et de 
toute façon inadéquat pour le Canada, 
pour les même raisons qu'en Allemagne 
de l'Ouest, 


ETATS-UNIS 


Aux Etats-Unis, le processus de 
révision constitutionnelle, quoique 
d'apparence simple, demeure 
passablement rigide. II faut l'accord des 
213 de chacune des 2 chambres 
(Chambre du Sénat et Chambre des 
Représentants) et du 2/3 des Etats. 

Depuis 1913, le temps maximum pour 
ratifier un amendement est de 7 ans. 
Une fois qu'un Etat a ratifié la 
proposition, il ne peut plus se rétracter: 
cependant un Etat peut -toujours se 
raviser s'il a précédemment rejeté 
l'amendement. 

Le Président ne possède pas le 
pouvoir de sanctionner un amendement 
afin d'y donner plus de crédibilité: il est 
tenu complètement à l'écart du 
processus. Fait inusité, la signature du 
Président Lincoln au bas du 13e 
amendement est considéré comme un 
acte d'inadvertance... ; 

Le peuple aussi peut participer aux 
débats par des conventions organisées 
par les Etats. 

Depuis 200 ans, on a voté seulement 
26 amendements a la constitution sur 
une possibilité de plus de 3,000. Cer- 
taines théories tentent d'expliquer ce 
phénomène, dont une en particulier qui 
stipule que les articles de la 





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apporterait une formule juste. 


Confédération ont institué un 
processus de révision difficile dans le 
but de prévenir le gouvernement fédéral 
d'empiéter sur les droit des nombreux 
Etats; que ce n'était pas dans le but de 
rendre la démarche ardue autant que 
pour confiner le gouvernement central à 
l'intérieur de limites bien déterminées 
et de laisser la liberté aux nombreux 
Etats d'établir leur propres règlements. 

Toutefois, les constitutions de 
chacun des Etats d'Amérique 
établissent des règles plus ou moins 
secondaires qui se rattachent aux 
matières de fond de la constitution 
américaine elle-même. Par exemple, 
une question d'importance majeure 
représentation 
égalitaire au Sénat ne sera traitée que 
dans la ‘grande’ constitution. 
D'ailleurs, on ne pourrait amender cette 
question qu'avec l'appui unanime de 
tous les Etats. 

Au Canada, les pouvoirs des 
provinces sont déterminés au complet 


_ dans l'AANB, Les règles furent établies 


dès 1867 et les Etats canadiens n'ont 
pas besoin de constitutions propres à 
chacun; ils ont surtout besoin de régler 
les problèmes de fond que pose la 
“grande .constitution. Voila la grande 
différence avec nos voisins du Sud. 
Alors qu'ils travaillent à parfaire les 
petites modalités de leur con- 
stitution(s), le Canada s'attarde depuis 
plus de 110 ans (et plus intensément 
depuis une cinquantaine d'années) sur 


des problèmes de fond. 


Les trois principales formules 
d'amendement proposées à l'AANB ont 
été celles de Paul-Gérin Lajoie en 1950, 


April 2, 1980 


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Fulton-Favreau en 1964 et Trudeau- 
Turner en 1971. 


LA FORMULE DE 
PAUL-GERIN LAJOIE 


EN 1950 


L'année 1950 aura été marquée des 
plus sérieux efforts jamais tentés 
jusque là en vue de trouver un mode 
général d'amendement à la constitution 
canadienne. 

Paul-Gérin Lajoie présenta la thèse la 
plus cohérente. Dans son livre: Con- 
Stitutional Amendment in Canada, 2 
formules d'amendement sont 
proposées: la première consisterait à 
diviser le Canada en 4 régions: les 
Maritimes, le Québec, l'Ontario et les 
provinces de l'Ouest, le consentement 
de chacune de ces régions étant requis 
toute modification importante 
dans la distribution de la juridiction 
législative (par exemple les droits des 
minorités concernant l'éducation et 
l'utilisation des langues française et 
anglaise). 

La seconde formule exigerait pour 
toute modification de cette nature le 
consentement des 2/3 — ou peut-être 
des 3/4 — des provinces, pourvu que 
ces provinces consentantes 
représentent les 3/4 de la population 
canadienne. 

Ni l'une ni l'autre futent acceptées. 
Quant au Québec, il ne trouve pas son 
compte dans la deuxième proposition, 
pour des raisons bien évidentes. Par 
exemple, il s'agirait qu'il propose de 
faire de la loi 101 un article de la cons- 
titution canadienne pour qu'une des 
trois autres régions rejette la 
proposition, au NON de l'unité 
canadienne... Il en serait de mème pour 
le Québec, qui refuserait une 
proposition de l'Ontario au NON de la 
liberté, etc. Finalement personne n'irait 
nulle part, si ce n'est vers l'in- 
tensification des rapports de con- 
tradiction du système fédéral canadien 
actuel, 

En ce qui a trait à la première 
proposition, on s'est toujours opposé à 
reconnaître au Québec un statut par- 
ticulier, statut sur lequel M. Lajoie in- 
sista en expliquant que ce mode tenait , 
compte de la nature spéciale du 
fédéralisme canadien. 

En fait, on rejette tout autant un droit 
de veto pour l'Ontario. La formule, donc, 
est trop rigide et met en relief les 
disproportions entre les provinces 
canadiennes. 


LA FORMULE 
FULTON-FAVREAU 


La formule proposée par le ministre 
conservateur Fulton, en 1960, et reprise 
par son successeur libéral, M. Favreau, 
en 1964, tente d'appaiser certaines 
craintes soulevées, notamment par le 
Québec, en soumettant toute 
modification de la répartition des 
compétences et dans l'usage des 
langues, à la règle du consentement 
unanime des provinces. Dans les autres 
domaines qui concernent: à la fois 
Ottawa et les provinces il faudra ob- 


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jonction, les négociations ont 
été interrompues ou au moins 
excessivement ralenties dans 
trois départements. 


D'ailleurs, les étudiants avaient 
clairement fait savoir qu'ils 
considéraient toute mesure 
coercitive comme un refus de 
négocier de bonne foi. Les 
professeurs de leur côté sont 


restés plutôt cois dans cette 


affaire même si ceux-ci 
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‘par Marc Berthiaume 
MONTREAL (PEQ)—L'Associa- 
tion nationale des étudiants du 
Québec (ANEQ) juge qu'il est 
| Important qu'elle prenne une 
position au sujet de la question 
nationale et du référendum. 
Toutefois, fa décision sur l'op- 
tion (OUI, NON, ou abstention) 
que devraient appuyer les étu- 
diants lors du référendum n'a 
pas encore été adoptée. 
Pourtant, les représentants 















talent donnés rendez-vous les 
29 et 30 mars derniers au 
CEGEP Maisonneuve de Mont- 
réal précisément pour débattre 
de la question au cours d'un 
| Congrès spécial. : - 

Mais voilà, sur les quelques 
18 associations étudiantes me- 
mbres de l'ANEQ présentes au 
Congrès, à peine 5 avaient 
réellement un mandat de leur 
assemblée générale pour que 
l'ANEQ traite de la question en 
profondeur et prenne position; 
quatre avalent un mandat appe- 
lant l'ANEQ à ne pas prendre 
position sur le référendum et 
l'option constitutionnelle, et 
huit n'avaient aucun mandat et 
se sont abstenues lors du vote. 

Devant cet état de fait, les 
150 délégués étudiants ont 
résolus à forte majorité, mais 
après d’apres débats, de trans- 
former le Congrès en colloque 
et de reporter la prise de 
décision finale au XIIè Congrès 
statutaire de l'association qui 
se tiendra à la fin du mois. 


Prendra position, prendra pas. 
Les discussions sur la parti- 
cipation de l'ANEQ au débat 
référendairé ont opposé deux 
points de vue, tant au cours du 
Congrès que du colloque. : 


“ll faut bâtir l'unité entre 

























Complet 


Complete 
Optical 
Service 


L’édition francaise 


L'ANEO et la question nationale 


des étudiants du Québec s'é-: 






étudiants francophones et an- 
glophones et ce n'est pas er 
prenant parti pour le ‘oul’ ou 
pour le ‘non’ qu'on va y 
réussir”, a affirmé la représen- 
tante du CEGEP Dawson. . | 

“On a beau dire que le débat 
ne doit pas être partisan, le 
‘oul’ qu'on va donner, c'est un 
oul au PQ pour qu'il aille 
négocier et Je ne vols pas 
comment le rapatriement de 
nos impôts va-t-il empêcher le 
gouvernement du PQ de nous 
tomber dessus comme il le fait 
entre autres en coupant dans 
les budgets de l'éducation”, a 
ajouté le délégué du CEGEP de 
Chicoutimi. “Entre deux maux, 
le ‘oul’ au PQ ou le ‘non’, qui 
est un oul a Ryan et a des 
siècles d'oppression nationale; 
on ne doit en choisir aucun", de 
poursuivre un autre. 

_ En contre-partie, d'autres 
délégués, dont celui du CEGEP 
de Rosemont, ont affirmé que 
“ne pas prendre position, c'est 
déjà prendre position. Tu lais- 
ses les autres décider pour toi.” 

“On ne peut pas ne pas se 
prononcer sur un sujet comme 
celui-là ot les étudiants du 
Québec, les étudiants de 
l'ANEQ, eux, n'hésitent pas et 
se préparent à voter a 80%.en 
faveur du ‘oul’ ”, de dire un 
autre. =. 

- L’oppression nationale 

- En aucun temps les délégués 
n'ont hesité a dénoncer l'op- 
pression nationale. Toutefois, 
on ne s'entendait pas sur 
l'etendue de ce concept et la 
pertinence d'en discuter au 
cours du Congrés. 

“L’'oppression nationale su- 

bie par la nation québécoise se 
manifeste dans l'éducation,” y 
a affirmé un représentant de la 
direction de l'ANEQ: 


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par Philippe Coutu 

ll y a quelques mois, les 
« étudiants de génie de 
À l'Université de Colombie 
“ britannique étalent poursuivis 
devant la ligue des droits et 
libertés pour . discrimination 
sexiste, relativement a des 
activités collectives qui at- 
taquaient de front le minimum 
de respect que l'on doit a tout 
être humain, en l'occurence 
aux femmes. 

Plus récemment, ‘une 
université de la Nouvelle- 
Ecosse était impliquée dans, 
une affaire semblable. 
ex De plus, un bon nombre de 
+ journaux étudiants émanant 
des facultés de génie dans tout 
le Canada soulèvent ici et là un 
tollé de protestations, prin- 
cipalement à cause de leur 
contenu qui, en exhibant par 
exemple des photographies de 
femmes nues juxtaposées à 
des gags-d’un humour douteux, 
contribuant à perpétuer l'image 
de la femme objet, femme au 





foyer, femme au lit, images 
contre lesquelles luttent 
justement les mouvements 


progressistes, appuyés par une 

grande partie de la population 

“qui se dit ordinaire”, 

& Pas étonnant que les fem- 

mes ne constituent jamais plus 

de dix pour cent des personnes 
inscrites comme aspirant- 
ingénieur! 

L Sont-ce donc des facultés de 
génie qui fabriquent des in- 
dividus socialement endormis 
et grossièrement sexistes, ou 
bien est-ce que ce sont plutôt 
les adolescents présentant ces 
symptômes qui décident d'aller 
grossir les rangs de ces 

| mêmes facultés? ; 

~ Pourquoi par ailleurs” la 





toute référence, deux années. 


passées dans une faculté de 
génie. Cependant, certaines 
observations flagrantes  jet- 
teront sûrement un peu de 
lumière sur le problème. 

D'abord, on constate que la 
ségrégation ou séparation 
selon le sexe s’observe dès le 
niveau CEGEP, et méme 
beaucoup plus tot. 

Nous avons tous reçu dès 
notre jeune âge une éducation 
plus ou moins ségrégation- 
niste. 
l'affaire des garçons”. Sionn’a 
‘ jamais entendu cette phrase 
directement, on en a du moins 
observé les applications tout 
autour de soi. Cet alignement 
préférentiel se continue au 
niveau du secondaire. Ainsi 


cette jeune étudiante de 
secondaire Ill en option 
couture, se voit refuser 


immédiatement et sans appel 


profession d'ingénieur, malgré . 


tous les développements que 
l'on connait, demeure-t-elle un 
.champ d’ action où les hommes 
prédominent? 

ll est difficile de répondre a 
ces questions avec, comme 


suite de la page 45 


l'admission à un programme 
d'électricité du bâtiment. 

Au niveau CEGEP, l'option 
sclences pures et appliquées, 
qui regroupe typiquement les 
futur(e)s scientifiques et 
ingénieurs, compte rarement 
plus de quinze pour cent de 
femmes chez ses effectifs. 
C'est que le choix pour une 
femme de cette concentration 


implique d'une part la 
fréquentation d'un milieu 
fortement masculin et 


nullement associé à la ‘crème 
de la société. D'autre part, ce 
choix soustend une lutte future 
certaine pour -percer sur le 
marché du travail, du moins sl 
la carrière d'ingénieur est 
envisagée, Témoin cette 
étudiante de Sherbrooke qui, 
lors d'une entrevue avec un 
employeur, se fait dire en 
pleine face: ‘Avant de penser à 
vous engager, nous étudierons 
sérieusement les implications 


de l'arrivée d'une femme dans 


le milieu de travial”. Témoin 
aussi Mme Micheline 
Bouchard, présidente de 


“La mécanique c'est 


Le sexisme et les facultés de 


l'Ordre : des Ingénieurs du 
Québec, qui affirme qu'on 
exigeait généralement d'elle un 
travail deux fois meilleur que ce 
qu'on aurait 
demandé à un homme. Cela 
était nécessaire pour prouver 
l'opportunité d'une femme au 
poste d'ingénieur! 

Nous voilà donc par- 


tiellement fixés sur les causes 


profondes de la forte 


fréquentation masculine en : 


génie. Mais pourquoi les 
étudiants et les ingénieurs eux- 
mêmes adoptent-ils, en 
général, une telle attitude à 
l'égard des femmes? 

D'abord, la faible quantité de 
femmes qu'ils côtoient lors de. 
leurs cours contribue sans 
aucun doute à former une at- 
mosphère fermée, typiquement 
masculine, où le chauvinisme 
est grandement susceptible de 
se développer. 

De plus, le cours d'ingénieur, 
profession libérale, regroupe 
souvent des individus aux idées 
plutôt conservatrices, excusez 
la contradtion! Cela est voulu 
en partie par l'hérédité ap- 
parente de l'éducation, celle 
qui veut qu'on ait plus de 
chances de devenir notaire si 
son paternel est notaire, par 
exemple. Or ces idées con- 
servatrices incluent souvent 
l'image de la femme au foyer, 
avec son bagage de préjugés. 

Par ailleurs, l'ingénieur type 
vit dans un monde d'exac- 
titude. Il analyse des 
concrets, et s'il ne possède pas 
déja un tempérament terre a 
terre, il est souvent porté a en 


* acquérir un. 


ll est en général difficile, 
lorsqu'on vit dans un domaine 
très spécifique, de prendre le 
recul nécessaire à la 
compréhension d'un 
phénomène plus général. Cela 
pourrait expliquer pourquoi les 
étudiants ingénieurs, bien 
qu'étant eux-mêmes de bons 
vivants, ne sont pas considérés 


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ie faible entité de RE que côtolent les étudiants en 1 gente 
lors de leurs cours contribue sans aucun doute a former une at- 
mosphère fermée, typiquement masculine, où le chauvisinme est 
grandement susceptible de se développer. 


comme très progressifs 
socialement, pas plus d'ailleurs 
que les étudiants de médecine 
ou de droit, qui sont eux aussi 
confinés à des domaines très 
spécialisés dans leurs études. 
Ceci nous amène à parler du 
cours de génie en tant que tel. 
Ici à McGill, le cours est recon- 
nu comme difficile. L'étudiant 


s'habitue à obéir et non à: 


réagir. Le fait que la majorité 





tenir l'approbation des législatures d'au 
‘moins les 2/3 des provinces 
* ‘repérsentant au moins 50% de la 
*- population du Canada selon le dernier 
recensement général. 
Mais cette formule est vivement 
contestée, principalement au Québec. 
Z Plusieurs invoquent encore une fols la 
rigidité de la formule, s'inquiétant de ce 
- qu'elle pourrait ‘‘geler'' la constitution 
du pays à tout jamais. 

Finalement le premier ministre Jean 
Lesage ne put résister aux fortes 
pressions et le 20 janvier 1966, Il 
communiqua au premier. ministre 
canadien Lester Pearson, fa décision de 





@ son gouvernement de remettre 

. indéfiniment la considération de la 

proposition d'amendement cons- 
titutionnel. 

En 1971, le gouvernement fédéral 


revient à la charge avec une nouvelle 


formule, qu'il considère plus simple et. 





plus qi La constitution peut être 


modifiée à l'appui: 

e d'une majorité au Sénat 

d'une majorité à la Chambre des 
Communes 

ed'une majorité d'au moins 6/10 des 
provinces. 

De ces 6 provinces, il doit 
nécessairement y avoir le Québec et 
l'Ontario, 2 provinces des Maritimes et 2 
provinces de l'Ouest, pourvu que ces 2 
comptent ensemble au moins 50% de 
toute la population des provinces de 
l'Ouest. | 

Même si, effectivement, cette for- 
mule est plus simple, elle n'en est pas 
moins aussi rigide que la proposition de 
1964. S'il désire toute modification de 
quelque importance, le Québec se 
heurtera au pouvoir de décision de 5 
autres provinces. 

La formule en elle-même peut être 
acceptable pour un Etat anglophone 
homogène, mals elle ne tient pas 


April 2, 1980 


compte des aspirations de plus en plus 
évidentes du Québec. Le 23 juin 1971, 
une semaine exactement après la 
conférence de Victoria, 
ministre Robert Bourassa, pressé de 
toutes parts, répond ‘non’ à la formule 
d' amendement Trudeau -Turner. 


LE DERNIER RECOURS 


Il faut donc comprendre 
possibilité d'une 


l'im- 
formule d'amen- 


--dement constitutionnel reposant sur le 


vote d'une majorité de citoyens et/ou de 
provinces. Tant et aussi longtemps 
qu'on ne reconnaltra pas la présence de 
. deux nations au Canada, sur le plan 
juridique, les négociations avorteront 
lamentablement. 

Du point de vue juridique, le Canada 
ne se compose pas de deux nations, 
mais de 11 gouvernements regroupant 
environ 22 millions de citoven(ne)s. De 


Sulte à la page 51 


D 


le premier. 


des cours sont obligatoires 
oblige l'étudiant à les réussjr, 
augmentant la pression 
psychologique lors de l'ap- 
prentissage et diminuant, un 
peu à la manière d'un lavage de 
cerveau, l'ouverture d'esprit 
des étudiants. 


Mais le facteur déterminant 
est sans doute la structure du 
cours elle-même. A McGill, sur 
100 crédits, l'étudiant dispose 
de trois crédits seulement pour 
les cours de culture générale, 
c'est à dire des cours de 
musique, langues, géographie 
ou autre. Trois crédits de for- 
mation générale sur cent 
crédits, c'est une moyenne qui 


, en dit long! 


La situation problématique 
actuelle en génie prendra grand 
temps à se corriger. Le temps 
nécessaire à la diffusion de 
tout changement social. Mais 
un facteur d'amélioration 
certain serait la diversification 
de la structure des program- 
mes, de façon à élargir la 
formation et la conscience 
sociale des ingénieurs. 

Un seul problème se pose, et 
il est-de taille: les industries 
préfèrent généralement les 
employés obéissants et 
bornés. 


~ 


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To sublet: May 1st to Aug. 31 spacious 
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beginning May 1. May be rented in full or 
Individually by room. Located on 456 Pine 
Ave., across from the gym. Rent 
negotiable as well as the length of the 
lerm. Phone 286-0935 





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Sublet 5 1/2 apt. May 1 - Aug. 31. Fur- 


nished, laundry room in building, sunny, 

… hardwood floors, near campus and gym, 
utilities included, rent neg. Phone 286- 
0473 anytime. 


Summer sublet: May 1st- Aug. 31st. lane 
3 1/2, line for 2 people (or 1). Fresh paint, 
hardwood floors, semifurnished, corner 
McTavish and Or. Penfield. 
$240.00/month. Call 286-0036. 
354—TYPING SERVICES 


Typing — fast and accurate — on 
Campus delivery and pick up — 
reasonable rates — call 672-2248. t 


Expert typing/proofreading service: all 
academic work - theses, term papers, 
eic.; manuscripis; correspondence; 
tapes; stencils; resumes. Speed - Ac: 
Curacy - Salisfaction guaranteed. 484. 
BB27; 486-7755; 845-1740. 


Typing. Pickup and delivery at McGill, 
Call Sue 697-0714. 


Experienced typist will do term papers, 
assignments, notes, factums, these at 
reasonable rates. 481-8895 or 481.1593, 


I will gladly and expertly type your theses, 
term papers, essays, resumes, 
bibliographies, etc, Legal experience, 
Bilingual. Fast and accurate. IBM 
typewriters. 487-4627, 


361— ARTICLES FOR SALE 


For Sale: 1975 Honda CB 3607, excellent 


condition, must sell, if interested call 849- 
8967. 


For sale: "71 Chevrolet Biscayne. Car and 
Owner in good condition. $450. or best 
offer, Call 697-4897. : 


Furniture: two bureaus Widrawers: two 
wooden olfice tables/desks; one metal 
desk w/drawers; live good chairs and one 
double mattress bought new with frame. 
Cheap, Call 286-0199. 


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What to rap with a Rabbi? Call Rabbi 
Hausman 341-3580, 

Sharon, Where have you gone.to? My 
parched heart thirsts for another glimpse 
of you... Winston. 

Ingénieur d'électronique à l'université du 
Michigan, 30 ans, célibataire, américain, 
voudrait rencontrer une Canadienne- 
francaise. Ecrivez à Richard, 406 N, State 
no. 2, Ann Harbor, Michigan 48104. 
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NAHUATL — A tous les étudiants 
intéressés à l'étude de celle langue, celle 
des Aztèques: Il y aura possibilité de 


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septembre 190. Communiquez avec 
Thérèse 488-0537 au plus tat. 


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instructors. 937-7989. 24 hrs. 


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Lasi few openings for 1980: Jr. unit head, 
nursing Student, swim director, sailing, 
judo instructors. June 20 - Aug. 17, near 
Ste. Agathe. Call Ron at Pripstein's 
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Voyage Culturel en Roumanie organisé el 
accompagné par Mme Nelly Leitner, 
artiste, prof. arts plastiques, animatrice 
T.V, parle couramment le français, 


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Call 842-6616. 








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‘Le Canada,une seconde Belgique ? | 


a quelques années lorsqu'ur. 
RME voyageait en Europe, c'était 
sous l'étiquette canadienne qu'il se 
déplagait. Maintenant que notre 
Situation politique est dans une phase 
de mutation, et que le monde extérieut 
prend conscience de la différence qui 
existe entre un Canadien-anglais et-un 
Canadien-français; ce même Québécois 
lorsqu'il voyage, pareil à une larve sous 
le processus de la métamorphose, 
abandonne la vielle étiquette pour en 
revêtir une nouvelle, cette fois-ci— 
québécoise. 

Qu'advient-il? Pourquoi ce 
changement? Je crois qu'il est possible 
de trouver un élément de réponse en 
cette terre qui a vu naître l'un des héros 
de notre enfance, Tintin, le belge. 

Le belge est-il un être potentiel ou 


par Yves Robidoux 





actuel? Peut-on le rencontrer sur la rue 
ou bien seulement dans les livres 
d'histoires? Sagit-il d'un être fictif ou 
“d' un être réel? Enfin, en quoi ce belge 
conceptullement différent du 
Canadien? Afin de bien répondre à cette 
iriterrogation, nous devons fournir des 
‘réponses aux questions antécédentes. 
J'ai toujours pensé que la Belgique était 
une nation habitée par des Belges, mais 
comme ces derniers aiment diré de 
toutes choses, ‘c'est pas si simple.” La 
Belgique n'est pas habitée par des 
Belges, mais par des Flamands et des 
Wallons. || s'agit beaucoup plus d'un 
mariage désuni que d'une nation. Les 
Flamands qui forment solxante pour 
cent de la population belge vivent le 
long de la mer du Nord et sur les plaines 
nordiques, La langue pariée est le 
hollandais. Les wallons, quant a eux, se 
partagent la partie sud comprise entre 
Bruxelles et la frontière française. Bien 
qu'on y parle un français différent de 
celui de la France, il n'en demeure pas 
moins que la langue parlée est le 
français. Il y a quelques cent cinquante 
ans de celà, les Flamands et les 
Wallons se sont rassamblés pour 
former ce que l'on appelle “un Etat 
artificiel.” Cette unification était 
désirée par les grandes puissances, 
dont principalement l'Angleterre qui 
voulait une nation dite “tampon” au 
coeur de l'Europe de l'Ouest. Gran- 
dement agités par le fait qu’ils ne 
parlaient pas la même langue, les 
Flamands et les Wallons n'ont jamais 
depuis ce temps cessé de se 
chamailler, et sont maintenant en vole 
de se séparer l'un de l'autre. 

Avec a l'ouest 
anglaises, à l'est le Québec, et au 
centre Ottawa, séparant ainsi ces deux 
entités, on peut géographiquement 
comparer le Canada à la Belgique. 
L'analyse s'intensifie con- 
sidérablement lorsque l'on tient compte 
des différences economiques: 
linguistiques et culturelles. 

Alors qu'au XIXe siècle les Wallons 
détenaient le pourvoir ‘ économique 
grâce au développement du secteur 
industriel, les Flamands cultivaient la 
terre. La méme-situation se présente 
pour les Québécois ou la majorité des 
capitaux ~appartenaient aux 
anglophones. Le seul endroit ou ces 
derniers capitaux étaient pratiquement 
absents, c'était dans le domaine 


Viele iota sil Mid anes 


langues officielles a Bruxelles, 


les provinces 


Bee Le cultivateur était a la fois 
capitaliste et salarié, cette. dernière 
forme d'entreprise rangée sous l'effigie 
du MPPP. 

Le secteur industriel appartenait aux 
anglophones laissant ainsi seulement 
la culture de la terre et la petite en- 
treprise aux Québécois. De plus, en ce 
qui concernait l'industrie, seuls les 
anglophones accédaient aux postes 
administratifs, le travail manuel étant 
de cette façon accompli par les 
Québécois. - 

Afin d'atteindre l'objectif proposé, i.e. 
celui d'établir un parallèle entre la soi- 
disant “nation’’ canadienne et belge, 
nous devons brièvement énoncer la 
situation ouvrière de cette dernière en 
ce XIXe siècle. Tout comme les 
Québécois, les Flamands devaient 
assumer les tâches manuelles et laisser 
l'administration entre les mains des 
Wallons, ces derniers détenant les 
capitaux, 

Nous ne sommes pas sans savoir que 
l'activité économique détermine 
l'aspect linguistique dans une forte 
proportion. Par exemple en Belgique, où 
le pouvoir économique était détenu par 
les Wallons, la langue était le françaisk. 
Au cours des quelques décades qui 
suivirent l'indépendance de la Belgique 
en 1830, la langue d'enseignement 
demeurait le français. Le Flamand se 
voyait par ce fait mème obligé d'étudier 
dans une langue qui lui était étrangère. 
Heureusement la situation changea 
quelques années après, mais la langue 


dite d'affaire si je peux m'exprimer ainsi : 


demeura le français. A cette époque, il 
était pratiquement impossible pour un 
Flamand ne parlant pas le français 
d'obtenir un emploi au sein des fonc- 
tionnaires gouvernementaux. Encore 
aujourd'hui où le français et le 
hollandais sont considérés comme 
les 
Flamands, dans la majorité des cas, se 
font répondre en français. Qu'est-ce a 
dire d'Ottawa où le français et l'anglais 
sont reconnus comme étant les deux 
langues officielles du Canada? Ici 
même à Montréal, centre nerveux d’un 
Québec francophone, il n'y a pas si 
longtemps la langue d'affaire était 
l'anglais, et pour réussir, il fallait s'y 
conformer. Certes, il y avait bien l'est de 
Montréal qui était francophone, mais 
que dire de sa puissance économique? 
Une fois le boulevard St. Laurent 
traversé, on se sentait déjà plus chez 
nous, ici à Montréal, ici au Québec. 
Encore une fois l'analogie prend du 
poids tandis que nous, Québécois, nous 
en perdons. 

Si l'activité économique détermine en 


quelque sorte le caractère linguistique, . 


qu'est-ce à dire de l'aspect culturel 
sinon qu'il est étroitement lié à ce 
dernier? Dans un pays où l'élément 
linguistique est à la fois pluraliste et 
confus, il est difficile d'avoir une forte 
identité culturelle. L'Allmagne, la 


France, l'Italie et la Grèce sont des 
exemples concrets d'unités 
linguistiques quoique possédant 


différents dialectes, ces derniers ne 
pouvant pas être évités. L'art yest 
prospère et l'identité culturelle vivace. 
Grâce à cette unité linguistique, ces 
pays ont produit de grands artistes. 
Qu'advient-il de la Belgique, de la 
Suisse et du Canada où cette unité 
manque? Certes, on distingue des 


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Lorsqu'il voyagent, les Québécois anandorinent la viellle étiquette pour en 
revêtir une nouvelle, cette fois-ci québécoise. La balance ne penche plus d'un 


seul cote... 





- groupements, des agglomérations de 


personnes parlant la même langue à 
l'intérieur de ces pays, mais qu’arrive-t- 
il lorsqu'il n'y a pas d'équilibre entre ces 


disparités linguistiques? Qu'est-il arrivé 
aux 
qu'aux Incas du Mexique? 


Indiens d'Amérique de même 


Le petit Robert désigne ce 
phénomène sous le nom d'assimilation. 
En Belgique les Flamands sont 
linguistiquement soutenus. par les 
Hollandais et les Wallons le sont par la 
France. En Suisse les cantons 
allemands et français reçoivent 
respectivement l'appui de l'Allemagne 


suite de la page 49 


là sont nées plusieurs inégalités qu: « n- 
cegénéré inévitablement en injus... 


contre la nation minoritaire, l'occurence 
la nation canadienne française et 
nd 

‘ançaise et québécoise, 

Par ailleurs, les canadiens angla:s, 
qu. forment environ 50% de la 
population du pays, n'accepteraient 
jamais de se retrouver sur un pied 
d'égalité avec les francophones cv 
n'en forment que 25%. De toute facgon 
‘les intérêts propres à chacune des deu: 
nations ne sont absolument pas con- 
ciliables dans l'étau linguistique où se 
trouve actuellement le Québec. 

Comme le soulignait Jacques-Yvan 
Morin, si, derrière le désir légitime de 
rapatrier le pouvoir constituant sé 
dissimule la volonté de forcer le Québec 
à rentrer dans le rang, on va droit vers 


April 2, 1980 


et de la France. En acceptant le statu 
quo, le Québec saura-t-il avec les: ins- 
truments qui lui sont donnés réprimer 
l'assimilation où bien doit-il s'en donner 
de meilleurs? Après mille années de vie 
commune, les Flamands et les Wallons 
espèrent encore le divorce qui leur 
permettra de s'épanouir séparément. 
Qu'est-ce à dire du taux croissant de 
séparations au sein des cantons 
suisses? A la lumière de cette réflexion, 
le statu quo mérite-t-il d'être envisagé 
ou sera-t-il tout simplement une 
“statue” de Monsigneur “quo,” le 
dernier représentant d'un génocide 
collectif? 





“ff appre . ‘al “Sin à 3 la Cris£ 

Je le tasor tort les -dgusiarvis 
echouent aepuis 340 ans, une seule 

lution s'avère impérieuse pour le plus 
grand bien des deux nations cana- 
siennes et de leurs. concitoyen(ne)s 
néocanadien(ne)s, voire la souveraineté 

itique du Québec. 

Jepuis 30 ans le gouvernment fédéral 
a olen tenté de tourner et de retourner 
=: formules d'amendement, mais il 
=e nble qu'il soit impossible de trouver 
une formule convenable aux parties en 
cause. 

Alors au lieu de se ralentir 
mutuellement, il vaudrait mieux au deux 
nations canadiennes de se séparer et 
profiter chacune d'une formule qui 
sAurait correspondre de façon adéquate 
a leur développement politique 
‘esssctif, C'est la solution dernière et, 
sembie-t-il, inévitable. 

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_ Brahm Pascal, editor Andrew Karolyi . 
Ace Baseline Richard Katz - 
. John Brazill Ellen McRae À 
“Chas” | Daniel O'Lartig | ; 
Emily.Cooper Cole The Phantom Runner 
| Don DiMaulo . Louis Rakita 
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Sports of My Times 


A sports editor 
looks back 


Well, nat really looking back, since there is 
still next year to look forward to and a second 
(wholly accidental) term as sports editor. 

Considering the year 1979-80; | am proud to 


‘] say that Daily Sports ran the greatest volume of 


copy in its history, some of it very goo, some of 
it very bad. And | very proudly add that thanks to 
Carl Heine and Richard Katz, we brought the 
McGill reader some of the finest sports 
photographs in the history of Daily Sports. 

Both those statements point up to the 
fickleness of the year to year quality of the 
sports secion and the rest of the Daily. No 
matter how many sports there are on campus, 
we're only as good as the people who come to 
offer their time to volunteer to write sports. In 
this final issue there were commitments for 
stories on a number of interesting athletes on 


| campus but, unfortunately, the people who cried 


so long about no coverage or of wanting this or 


that in Daily Sports never showed up with the : 


goods. That's not sour grapes; after a year down 
here you expect certain things. 

The measure of the true Daily staffer is 
dedication, before writing skills. That is also the 
measure of the McGill athlete and fan. For all 
their dedication, athletes here know they won't 
be playing in front of adoring crowds or adoring 
administrators and Redmania worsened 
thecrowd situation. There is a Dally tradition to 
write an annual “Call to the Fans." Response is 


| abysmal. So I'm beginning to wonder if anybody 


reads the paper. Is there anyone who actually 
reads what we write? Ah, the angst of a Daily 
staffer. 

There are some superior individuals in McGill 





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athletics and the frequent success of their 
endeavors attests to that. They make this job 
worth it. 

As a narcissistic perfectionist, allow me to 
leave you with this closing message that is oh 
so applicable to McGill University: the con- 
spiracy of mediocrity is increasing in 
magnitude. Watch it. 

Thank-you and good night. 

Be over in five minutes, Jan. 


Lacelle, Drover, 
win outstanding © 
athlete awards 


Marc Lacelle, pictured at left, won the Forbes Trophy as 
McGill's male student ‘who has brought the most credit to the 
university by reason of his athletic achievements." A second- 
year P&T student, Lacelle became a starter for the Redmen in 
the third game of the season and rushed for 725 yards, 
averaging six yards a carry with a season high of 198 yards in 
that very first game. Lacelle was a previously awarded the 
Alouette Alumni Trophy as outstanding amateur football player 
in Quebec receiving the same honor from the Québec Amateur 
Football Association. Other nominees were basketball's Rick 
Rusk and soccer's Robert Tipney. 

The Roscoe Award, given annually to the graduating female 
Student “who has shown throughout her years at McGill 
proficiency and leadership particularly in intercollegiate sports, 
was awarded to Laura Drover. A third year Industrial Relations 
student, Drover has been active on the ice hockey Martlets as 
well as the field hockey Martlets and women's rugby team. She 
is also a member of McGill's Athletic Board. Other nominees for 
the award were fleld hockey's Cathy Haig and ice hockey's 
Cory Logan. 


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by Rocks Hudstone 

The traditional calm and 
wood-panelled elegance of the 
Royal Montreal Curling Club 
was the scene of exuberant 
competition February 15-16 as 
virtually the entire membership 
’ of the McGill Curling Club 
turned out for the first-ever 
McGill Club Bonspiel. 





Six teams were involved, and 
when the dust cleared and the 
last rock came to a stop, Curt 
Folkerson's rink stood alone 
with an umblemished 3-0 mark. 
The Rick Walsh quartet 
finished second at 2-1, while 
the four remaining teams had 1- 
2 records. 


Folkerson’s rink had its 
¢ toughest game Saturday af- 
térnoon, as Rollie Vincent 
layed flawlessly in the early 

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_ after six ends. Vincent's team 
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end. Rollie could have won with 
a perfect last-rock draw, but a 
little extra weight and poor 
sweeping judgement caused 
the rock to slide just through 
the house. 

Predictably, Vincent's post- 
game comments could not be 
quoted in a family newspaper 
without grave risk to’ the 
publisher. 


severe Fae eee ree 


Curlers ramble on in wins at 
- McGill, TMR-St.L bonspiels 


On Sunday, 
parlayed brilliant shotmaking 
from second Donna Mingie and 
consistent support from lead 
Carole Folkerson and third 
Mario Bartali into easy victories 
over Rick Walsh and Oleg 
Zadorozny. Walsh gained 
second place with suport form 
Ted Halmos, Doug Paulsen 
and Joanne Mills. 





the seventh end, forcing 
À Folkerson to take one. 
at Vincent was unable to make 
% his last rock Count, however, as : 
Pa Folkerson stole two and then Mark Sholzberg (shooter), Er Paulson (middle), Raymond Lee 
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est Engineering & Science Graduates 
- Procter & Gamble Specialties, Ltd. located in Belleville, and specializing in 
Né the manufacture of consumer paper products, is seeking to employ 


university graduates with training in technical problem-solving. These 
“ career opportunities will be of special interest to persons who are about to 
graduate in all disciplines of Engineering or Science graduates in Math, - 
Physics, Chemistry or Biology, and who want to apply their technical 
training in a manufacturing environment. We are seeking graduates who 


ki | ‘ have demonstrated creativity and the willingness to consider the unor- 


thodox - we would also expect you to be technically proficient and to be 
confident of your ability to analyze and solve problems. 


If you are the type of person who is looking for a management career which 
will utilize your technical training and develop your people management 
abilities, these career opportunities will be of interest to you. Interested 


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=» The MoGilk"A" mens curling 


Folkerson. 


Frank with consistent shot- 
making - throughout. Marilyn 
Lockhart performed well in two 
outings as spare. Kinahan was 
especially strong in Game Five, 
curling a brilliant 85% to drub 
highly touted Wentworth, 7-0. 

McGill teams have been 
active in a variety of com- 
petitions throughout February 
and March. Kinahan and 
Zadorozny skipped their mixed 
teams to respectable showings 
in Quebec Mixed competitions. 
The McGill women's team of 
Marilyn Lockhart, Beth Wood, 
Joanne Mills and Lorraine 
McBride played in two com- 
petitions, finishing a strong 
second in February before 
Staggering to ‘two straight 
losses last weekend. 


team skipped by Frank Kinahan 
put a strong and steady week of 
curling together en route to six 
Straight wins and a victory in 
the TMR-St. Laurent bonspiel. 

After five lopsided victories, 
Kinahan struggled to a 9-7 win 
over Glenmore. The final game 
belonged to Kinahan. Trailing 3- 
O after one end and facing 
three guarded Glenmore 
stones, Frank made a perfect 
raise-takeout to count one, 
then followed a Glenmore miss 
with a perfect draw to the four- 
foot to take two: 

Back in the game, McGill 
settled down and eventually 
drew away to victory. Lead 
Krishna Rao, second Oleg 
Zadorozny, and third Curt 
Folkerson backed up Flashy 


Ladouceur leads 
swimmers at Nat’ls 


Both the McGill men's and women’s varsity swim teams placed 
well in the 16th annual CIAU swimming and diving cham- 
pionships held three weekends ago at Laval University, in Ste. Foy, 
Québec. 

The individual star performer for the women's squad was 
Ginette Ladouceur, with silver and bronze medals in the 200 metre 
and 100 metre backstroke, respectively. Ginette also placed 
seventh in the 200 metre |.M. Elaine Leclerc, a newcomer this year, 
finished ninth and twelfth in her breaststroke specialties. 

On the men's team, Lester Jackson, ending a brilliant in- 
tercollegiate career, finished seventh and tenth in the 200 and 100 
metre butterfly events. Bill McCoy finished ninth with a personal 
best time in the 50 metre freestyle. Other strong performances on 
the men’s squad were turned in by Peter Neilley (100 metre fly), 








Dave McGerrigle (100 and 200 metre breaststroke) and Rich . 


Delahunty (400 |.M. and 200 backstroke). 
In what was billed as a rebuilding year, the McGill squad raised 
quite a few eyebrows at the PEPS sport complex. Coach Zarins 


expects big things from both the men's and women's teams in 


1981. 





McGill Athlete 
Awards 


Team MVP's 
Alpine Skiing Women: Michele Dauphinée 
Alpine Skiing Men: Patrick Dubus 
Women's Badminton: Suzette Saouni 
Men's Badminton: William Ng 
Martlet Basketball: Coleen Dufresne 
Redmen Basketball: Rick Rusk 
Redmen Cross-Country: Tim Norman 
Redmen and Martlet Diving: Lisa Palumbo 
Martlet Fencing: Therese Koplin 
Martlet Field Hockey: Cathy Haig 
Martlet Ice Hockey: Cory Logan 
Redman Ice Hockey: Ken Covo 
Redmen Rugger: Chuck Knirsch 
Redmen Soccer: Brian Decaire 
Martlet Swimming: Ginette Ladouceur 
Redmen Swimming: Dave McGerrigle 
Martlet Synchro Swim: Susan Charters 
Martlet Volleyball: Dana Reid 
Redmen Volleyball: Marc Thibodeau 
Redmen Football: Marc Lacelle 





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by Ellen McRae 





The big broom is thundering 
down the hallways of Currie 
Gym, pushing a mound of 
Redmania refuse to clear the 
path for Round Two. All of you 
apathetic McGill students, put 
up your dukes, because this 
time the Athletic Department 


really means business. 


Redmania will be reborn as 


of September 1980, and there | 


will be no $6,500 loss for the 
Department as was the case 
this year, No sir, next year they 
are going to try and break even 
on Redmania, and if all the ‘Big 
Mistakes" can be ironed out in 
the meantime, there will be a 
marked increase in student 
participation in the in- 
tercollegiate sports program at 
McGill. 


Aiming too High 


Most of those involved in the 
program conceded that the 
expectations were 
and unrealistically high. The 
department not only planned to 
make money from advertising 
and ticket revenue, but also to 


incredibly : 





Sane! on the other hand, did catch the Radwwanla spirit, to the 


tune of six to ten in the Big House. 


campus. The program was to 
bombard the students and 
alumni with paraphernalia of all 
sorts, including brochures sent 
out to promote the selling of 
season tickets (which failed 
miserably and caused much of 
the program's deficit.) 
Redmania did not exactly 
light a fire under most McGill 


and 250 people, a tremendous 
decrease from last year. 

“Let's face it, this is a 
Canadian university not 
Dallas, commented.one of the 
organizers, Steve Livingstone. 

“We four 
worked on the program in the 
Summer worked hard, and | 
think we built a good strong 


students who 


Department were too 


high.” 


Parochialism in Athletic Dept. 


just 


After $6, 500 00 loss, AD ponders future of Redmania 


He added that there was a 
lack of co:operation from the 
Athletic Department 
summer and denied the fact 
that student co-ordinator Paul 
Senecal's departure in Sep- 
tember should have hindered 
the success of the program, as 
was asserted by Promotion Co- 
ordinator Harry Zarins. 


Zarins told the Daily that 
much of Redmania’s 
momentum was lost in Sep: 
tember, when the four students 
left to continue their studies 
and he and several others were 
left to “pull it together.” 


Zarins is determined that 
lack of foresight and a late start 
won't plague .the Redmania 
program for next season, as 


happend this year. They have 


long begun plans 
tember. 


for Sep- 


+ Weneed Redmania 


From the point of view of 
Athletic Director Robert 
Dubeau, McGill is in drastic 


happen at McGill in a long 
this’ 


“as the Redmania magazine and 


mania, modelled on the wildly À 
successful program at 
Southern Methodist University 
in Texas, is, in his opinion, one 
of the most positive things to 


while. 


Both Zarins and Dubeau - 
agree that the focus of Red- 
mania must be drastically 
altered for 1980-81 if it is to 
succeed at all. Focus will be : 
placed on fewer activities, such 


the sale of season tickets. 


A few prime examples of the 
failure of the Redmania en- 
deavour to get students going 
again were the “Home:-stretch 
Meal’ and “Pep Parade.” 
Those ‘events’ drizzled 
miserably away like peptone 4 
rain. 


“It's difficult to drum up 
interest in Canadian students 
in general any more,” said 
Dubeau. 


“We'knew we were taking 
gamble, but if you don't try 
anything, :you'll never get) 
anywhere, right?" 

So no more of this cowering 


behind the library stacks—’ 
September 1980 belongs to 


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resoundingly defeat the severe students. Average attendance base for Redmania, but the need of some kind of sports Redmania. That translates to 4 
student apathy rampantonthe at the games was between 100 expectations of the Athletic promotional program. Red- spirit. aye 
McGILL INSTRUCTIONAL ATHLETICS ~ 
Spring and Summer Terms __estersmitn 
| Peter Smith 
The Instructional Program is an opportunity to use the Members'of the staff of the Department of Athletics, as 
athletic facilities and to acquire or improve athletic skills. well as qualified part-time instructors, will teach in the program. 
SPRING SESSION MAY 5 to JUNE 14 EH SUMMER SESSION JUNE 30 to AUG 9 
TOTAL CLASSES | TOTAL CLASSES 
COURSE FEE. HOURS WEEK COURSE FEE HOURS WEEK REGISTRATION: 
Tennis $18 9 1 Jazz Dance 32 18 2 SPRING TERM : MAY 1 & 2 
Squash 18 g 1 Social Dance 24 18 2 10:00 to 18:00 hrs. 
Fitness 18 12 2 Disco Dance 20 12 2 
Golf 12 6 Vitis Tap Dance ~ 32 18 2 SUMMER TERM JUNE 26 & 27 
Yoga 18 15 2 Learn to Swim 24 12 2 10:00 to 18:00 hrs. 
Shorinjiryo Karate 32 18 2 Swim Fitness _ 20 12 2 OFFICEG7 CURRIE GYMNASIUM 
Ballet 32 18 2 Aquacises 18 6 2 
Modern Dance 32 18 2 . Synchronized Swimming 24 18 2 479 PINE AVENUE WEST 
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call 392-4737 or drop by Office G7 of the Currie Gym: 


… CLASSIFICATION 


Staff. 
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æaunmer session students 


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April 2, 1980 


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Participants in the Instructional Program must 
hold a Summer Gym Membership Card: 





Memberships may be purchased from the General 
Office (G3) of the QUE Gym beginning April 28 from 
09:00 to 17:00 hrs. . | 





For info on gym memberships call 392-4725 





by Brahm Pascal 
“An Athletics Committee 
was set-up one year ago this 
month with a mandate of 
presenting a facilities develop- 


ment report to the Athletics | 


Board. The report was present- 
ed at the November (1979) 
meeting of the Athletics Board 
and It was accepted. 

“Then it was forwarded to the 
principal who forwarded It to 
the Senate Development Com- 
mittee: They had it on their 
agenda and formed a Project 
Committee to look indetail into 
the economic model, the feasi- 
bility and responsibility of 
constructing new facilities... 
The Feasibility study was sent 
back to the Development Com- 
mittee who were to decide what 
to recommend on what priority 
athletic facilities should have 
when the university decides to 
build.” ‘ 


While all the relatives blather | 


over what to do about her 
estate, 41-year-old Currie Gym- 
nasium and Armoury has no 
heir apparent. 

That was Director of Athlet- 
ics Robert Dubeau talking 





about the bureaucratic finagl- F 


Ing it takes to get some kind of 


- #major project off the ground at 


McGill. After all that committee 
ping-pong there are still no 
cost blueprints or construction 
blueprints for the proposed 
fieldhouse, 12m Indoor squash 
courts, 50 meter pool with 
moveable bulkhead and hyd- 
raulic floor,. outdoor tennis 
courts;and renovations of the 
squash courts, locker rooms, 
gymnasium, Forbes Field, ad- 
ministrative offices, and Winter 
Stadlum. There were however, 


architecture professor Derek 


Drummond and Sam Kingdon 
(B.Eng.) on the committees. 
Dubeau says that, “My feel- 
ing, having: spoken to the 
principal, Is that he agrees that 





_ How much more can 
this poor gym take ? 


two years ago by the “Drumm- 
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committee to study athletics at 
the University: ; 


“The committee unanimous- 
ly deplores the present deterlo- 
ration of Athletics facilities 
which seemed to result from 
the lack of any Coherent 
maintenance plan, and recom- 


the facilities are not adequate.” | mended that a survey of the 
The same opinion was voiced condition of the facilities and 


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the costs of renovation and 
proper maintenance be under- 
taken. As McGill's facilities 
now in no way compare with 
those at any other Quebec 
university, it was also recomm- 
ended that'steps be taken to 
obtaln a capital grant for the 
renovation and expansion of 
our athletic facilities.” 

As any gym user knows, the 
facilities problem is not just 
one of quality, but of space. 

“This Is not just the need of 
the athletic department,” Du- 
beau says. “It is statistical. 
When this gym was bullt in 
1939, it was built for a 


" university of 4,000 students.” 


The Sports Development Co- 
mmittee report uses numbers 
as its howitzers: 


e The construction of the 
existing Currle Gymnasium in 
1939 was designated for a male. 
student population of 4,000 and 
a female population of 500. 
Even though there have been 
minor renovations... the exist- 
ing facilities cannot possibly 
serve the 20,000 full-time stud- 
ents and 5,000 faculty and staff 
that presently make up the 
McGill community. 

¢ The present athletic dept. 
has been hard-pressed to cope 
with the 5,000 plus restraints in 
the non-credit instructional 


phys-ed program;5,000 regist- - 
‘rants In its competitive intra- 


mural program (300 teams in 18 
sports);2,000 members in its 
sports club program; close to 
450 participants in the intercol- 
leglate program. 

elt is presently estimated 
that approximately 250,000 ind- 
ividuals utilize the Athletic 


April 2, 1980 


Department complex during the 
seven month academic period 
from September to April. 


Some of that is blatant 
statisticulation, however, the 
numbers are so overwhelming 
they can't be ignored. Given 
that the administration is pres- 


‘antly fondling some kind of 


plan for a smaller university, 
declining enrolment is a part of 
It. How would this affect 


athletics and participation? 

“If the university did get 
smaller,” Dubeau says, “we do 
not feel that participation is 
going to change. It will remain 
exactly the same and we won't 
have any place to put the 
athletes. 

“We're not involved in the 
debate at all. It's just our 
responsibility to offer an ex- 
cellent, all-round athletic pro- 
gram." 

x *® * 

What the program would like 
to offer the McGill community 
are facilities and renovations 
running somewhere around ten 
to twelve million dollars but 
funding specifics have not been 
discussed. 

“It's our belief that If a major 
construction Is planned the 
money will mostly likely have 
to come from a development 
program, and grads and corp- 


# orate donations. It won't come 


from the government.” 

It’s a measure of how far the 
facilities program has gone 
when there are no concrete 
plans for how and where to get 
the money. There has been talk 
that perhaps McGill students 
may be asked to kick In money 
for facilities they would never 
use; facilities we may be asked 
to contribute to when the 
present U3s are grads with the 
money to burn for the old alma 
mater. 

“I'm not optimistic that any- 
thing will be done in the next 
five years," Dubeau says about 
the facilities. “If you asked me 
about renovations, I'd say 
there's a good chance we'll 
have better facilities but we 
can't handle more people.” 

With the celerity of a tort- 
oise, facility development at 
McGill rolls on. Perhaps a more 
direct approach is needed 
because going through three 
committees twice each will 
keep old Currie Gym without 
rae until her fate is determin- : 
ed. 





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by Louls Rakita . 


It has been sald that one has to be a 
little crazy to endure the gruelling 
pressures that are part of the everyday 
routine of a hockey goaltender. Now 
that the equipment Is in storage for 
another year, It's time to Investigate 
those bellefs more thoroughly with 
McGill's versions. of the image, 
Redmen goalies Larry Rush and 
François (Frank) Grenier. . 

They both toll for the Redmen as 
netminders, but differences between 
them crop up Immediately. Rush halls 
from Chomedey, the magnificent town 
that produced such headliners as 
Mike Bossy and Gerry Datillio, where- 
as Grenler calls East-end Montréal his 
nome. TX 

Rush started playing hockey at 
Western Laval High School, and was 
also interested In baseball, jogging, 
comedy and music (to the extent that 
he played bass gultar In a band fora 
while). . Grenier: only: began tolling 
behind the defencemen at CEGEP 
Jean de Brébeuf, where he was “only” 
an equipment manager, although he 
had to work at it for up to five hours a 
day “and that was enough for 
anybody.” 

Grenier Is interested in religion, 





Larry Rush 

reads about It often, and feels strongly 
about his spiritual inclinations. “Peop- 
le are the most important thing to me 
because God Is In all people,” he 
says. “I’m notacultist, it's just a way of 
life for some people, and it makes me 
happy.” 


Rush, on the other hand, found that. 


although he was serious about life in 
his earlier years, he Is becoming less 


so now. “I'm morg aware of the 


importance of good friends, and | find | 
have more dedication to physical 
fitness than school,” he observed. 

Grenier has discovered the oppo- 
site. “| used to just want to succeed at 
school and hockey,” he recalls. “Now, 
i'm more specific spiritually, maybe 
because of my feelings about religion 
and God.” 

But thelr main interest is hockey. 
They both started on skates at an 
early age, as Rush tells it, “the typical 
Canadian story, your father takes you 


out on your first pair of skates when 
you're five years old, and you're told 
about the Canadien all-stars and the 


like—It’s a tradition.” 


“You had to Join in,” agrees Grenier, 


page 58/ The McGill Daily 





-who actually started out as a defence- 


man, “but one day the goalle on our 
team didn't show up, so they put me In 
nets. We won that game, 1-0!" Grenier 
has been playing goal ever since. 

it was at the mosqulto level that 
Rush got his first taste of stopping 
pucks. “I had watched Eddie Giacomin 
When he was with the Rangers, and | 
guess | wanted to be like him.” His 
coach didn't agree; Rush was origi- 
nally used as a forward, but his 
insistence on playing nets won out. 

Being a goalle is far removed from 
being a hockey player at another 
position, in the same way that 
pitchers are different from baseball 
players. “It takes another goalie—with 
luck maybe your coach—to know just 
what a goalle goes through,” explains 
Rush. | 

“You really are the last line of 
defence. Psychologically, there's 
more pressure put on you, and that 
added pressure can be tremendous. A 
big part of your game has to be the 
mental preparation, which Is again 
more Intense and vast than a forward's 
or defenceman's would be. It’s import- 
ant to know your own personal game 
plan and stay calm.” , 

“You have to care more about the 
team and the game in general,” adds 
Grenler. “You can't afford not to care, 
especially on a weak team, because 
then your goals-against average will 
skyrocket.” 

The mental preparation varies frem 
player to player and the two goalies’ 
systems differ. Rush has been known 
to have somewhat less than full 


control over his temper. on the Ice. 
He's aggressive, forever challenging 


the shooter, cutting down angles at all 
times. 

“You can't change your style,” he 
points out. “You have to stick with the 
game plan that helped you make the 
team in the first place, but you do have 
to alter It a bit from time to time. In a 
game against Concordia, for example, 
| had to-stay In my net more than 


usual, because their skaters will Just - 


keep the puck and move it around until 
you're forced Into making a mistake.” 

Grenler's preparation consists of, 
among other things, a special diet rich 
in carbohydrates conceived by head 
coach Ken Tyler, “which means I'm 
eating a lot of spaghetti.” 

Rush Is naturally nervous and the 
day of the game he finds It tough to do 
very much of anything, including 


eating. “The way | see it, you have 
enough energy for the game from your 
meal the previous night. Anyway, I'm 
nervous, you always are, and | can't 
concentrate on reading, studying, or 
very much else. 

“I try not to do anything to disrupt 
the routine, especially not to hurt my 
eyes. The eyes are SO important that 
you take every precaution not to 
overwork anything.” SS 

Grenler, on the other hand, is far 

more cautlous. “I like to feel my net 
behind me. | don't come out Ilke Larry 
does, because | don’t take the chance 
of a rebound. | hate rebounds going in 
for goals, sol stay In my net. | wait for 
the shooter to make his move. Why 
not? The player, he has to be the one 
who works for his goals. | just have to 
stop the puck.” 
Grenier is more relaxed than Rush 
off the ice as well. He has no trouble 
with his concentration on the day of 
the game, and Is able to eat a light 
lunch at about 3:00 p.m. “For my part, 
the pressure doesn't begin until | step 
on the Ice, and then it disappears after 
the first couple of shots. | work .on 
getting relaxed, because once you get 
on the ice you have to be prepared.” 


Prepared or not, it remains difficult 


fora player on a rebuilding team to get 
“up” for every game, as the goalies 
always have to do. They must usually 
find thelr motivation within them- 
selves. | 

“| like to play goal,” declares 
Grenier. “| really enjoy making saves, 
stopping shots and all that. I'm 
discovering things here, not only 
about goaling or hockey but about 
people. It's great to feel like part of the 
team—the social aspect is also 
important to me. zs 

“But even better is when we win. The 
Laval game (mid-January, when the 
Redmen rallied for three goals in the 
third period to win 5-4) was unreal. The 
feeling you get from winning Is 
indescribable.” | | 

Rush echoed Frank's statements. 
“Just as the other players can't really 


understand the lows you go through as 


a goalle, they can't get into the feeling 
you have when you win, partially 
because It was so rare this year. 
Playing in goal, there are more 
negative points than positive ones, but 
the positive ones are so positive It's 
unbellevable. A well-played game has 
got to be the ultimate high.” 
Sometimes being caught up in 


April 2, 1980 


hockey means falling behind in 
academla. “I do find that l'm not 
putting enough time into my studies 
sometimes," admits Rush, “but it's 
usually voluntary. It catches up. | 
started panicking last semester a- 
round exam time, but it all comes 
with experience, | guess—! know for 
next year how to allocate my time 
better.” 

“Hockey is the priority, whether you 
realize It or not,” Grenier points out. °'l 
also wasn't comfortable around 


exams, but next year I'll know better.” — 


Obviously, support and encourage- 
ment from family and friends are not 
enough. They must come from within 
and with a team like the 3 and 21 
Redmen of 1979-80, inner strength was 
difficult to sustain. One of the: pillars 


- of the team had to be coach Ken Tyler. 


The McGill head man has received 
nothing but accolades all year, and 
Rush and Grenler make no exception. 
“He's’ great for taking off press e,” 
says. Frank. “It’s been a frui ful 
experience for me because he S 






been so encouraging.” on 

And from Rush: “Even when we 
were losing, he kept shouting enthusi- 
astically, praising us if we were 
playing well.-1 learned from Tyler 





. 


Francois Grenier 
because ci that. a6 Ss wis ist coach ‘i 
ever played for who actualiy worked 
with me. Most coacnes ,ust .hrow you 
on the ice without talking to you, never 
mind looking at you. He was part of 
what kept-me going.” 

There are fewer teams around that 
are as cohesive as the Redmen were 
this past year and that is an 
extremely positive point. “Everybody 
gets along,” Rush states. “We have 
many friendships and no cliques. 
There's a community feeling—togeth- 
erness.” Rush's contribution to the 


team spirit wasn't a small one. He 


initiated the famous “Tie Night”, which 
gave rise to “Hat” and “Suit” nights, 
and earlier in the year, he organized an 
impromptu hot dog party, which 
brought some of the shyer players out 
of the corners. | 

Their closeness with the players 


doesn't stop with each other. “We : 


have a good working relationship," 
Rush’ reveals. “Sure, there was a 
competition, but it never got personal. 
When Frank was in goal, | was ‘pulling 
for him. | learned a lot from him this 

see Rush and Grenier, p.61 


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A tree grows in Currie Gym. 

Butch Staples the Gardener tends to 
the once-frail sapling and it is the center 
piece of his office, on his desk amidst 
the awards, books and athletics flap- 
dash. Come the first November frost, 
surreptitious squirrels won't gather 
acorns from beneath the tree branches, 
just notes on names, numbers and 
plans; scribbled, nonsensical and 
otherwise. 

In this flummoxed spring following 
the winter that was only a snowy pause, 
the “note tree” germinates in elapsed 
time. Staples will take the visitor and 


detail the growth of each bud, each ° 


branch: the First “Timmy” basketball 
tournament on April 4th and :5th is 
coming along; another in a succession 
of McGill basketball trips abroad (May 
11-25), this time to Portugal, is 
Straining for more light;and the '80-'81 
basketball prospects have clean broken 
a window. Memoes to himself flower at 
this:time of year. 
Branching out for Timmy 


_-The . “Timmy” tournament. evokes 
» special feelings from Staples as it is his 


and the whole basketball program's 
special spring project. There will be four 
teams competing, Toronto, high school 
all-stars from Ottawa-Carleton and 
Eastern Massachusetts and the Québec 
CEGEP all-star team (the provincial 
team). 

“The tournament has as much 
potential as an amateur sporting event 
in eastern Canada can possibly have," 
Staples beams.” The caliber of play will 
be equal to what we have ever had in our 
gym." : 

Thumbnail sketches (see box) of the 
teams involved support that claim and 
also remember that this Québec team 
played the same Florida teams the 
Redmen did over Christmas and fared 
better. : 

Support for the tournament has come 
from all sides. “The reason l'm so en- 
thusiastic is that we've gotten a lot of 
support from people,” Staples says. 
“The Chateau Chaplain and Hyatt will 
host-teams for two nights, Laurier BBQ 
will supply some meals, McDonald’s 
will supply breakfasts, and Sealtest will 
provide refreshments. And we've got all 
our athletes here out. collecting 
donations on behalf of Easter Seals.” 

Easter Seals, of course, is the root of 
the. Timmy. tourney. Redmen and 
Martlets athletes are directly involved in 
coordinating the tournament and the 


Wr fund raising. The Easter Seals cam- 








paign objective is $300,000 and the 
athletes feel : they can make a 
significant contribution of a few 
thousand dollars. 

When did Staples get the inspiration 
to add Timmy to the note tree? 

“| was up recruiting a player in Ot- 
tawa in late February while | was 
organizing a series with Toronto high 


’ schools playing the CEGEPS,” he said. 


“But. | saw the quality of Ottawa area 
ball and then | thought of Joey Farroba 
(former Redmen player and coach) in 
Massachusetts and we had a tour- 
nament. | was thinking Easter too, then 
Easter Seals, and it couldn't be a better 
match.” 


Staples’ lateral and vertical thought 


has put together a first class tour- 
nament. Support will also come from 





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the “April Fools Masquerade” bash on 
April 5 at Currie Gym, a dance and 
magic extravaganza that Staples calls 
“more than a dance; it’s variety en- 
tertainment and a happy hour for all 
faculties, like nowhere on campus.” 
You may have noticed the face of one or 


more Redmen athletes (not the one with 


Québec CEGEP All-Stars 

Forward Ron Penston (VANIER) 6'4", 190 
Ibs.: One of best shooters ever in CEGEP... 
led VAN with 21 ppg... can score from 
anywhere, 22 

Guard François Dion (MAISONNEUVE) 
6'2", 190 Ibs.: 1st team AII-CAN as frosh... on 
Québec team 3 yrs... one of best guards to 
come out of Qué. 

Eastern Massachusetts All-Stars 

Forward Marlon Burns (DARTMOUTH H.S. 
Dartmouth, MA.) 6'8", 205 Ibs.: 21 ppg last 2 
yrs, 13.5 rpg, 5 blocked shots... Conf. player 


of year-as Jr. and Sr... going to Syracuse, St. 


Bonaventure, or Providence. 


moist, parted lips) on the bash poster. 
it’s just another part of their effort to 
support the tourney and the Timmy's 
and Tammy's will be the winners. 

Redmen and Martlets across the water 

In the same boat that earlier Redmen 
teams voyaged in to Czechoslovakia, 
Hungary, Greece and Israel, this year’s 
Redmen and Martlets will take to 
Portugal. 

The team was originally supposed to 
travel to Belgium on an exchange 
program but that didn’t work out, 
Portugal was the easiest to arrange 
considering the expenses involved. It 
was “the best buy”, as Staples said. 

The group of 25 McGill athletes and 
coaches will debark in Lisbon, play 


Who to watch for at the Timmy | 


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three or four games there against club 


teams and then journey down the 
southern beaches for some tourism and 
R&R, 


“All the fund raising for the trip is 


| Cagers branch out for Timmy, Europe 





done by the athletes," Staples says : 


proudly.” “They're out working like 
crazy to ralse the money. It’s good for 





Ottawa-Carleton All-Stars 
Guard Chris Johnson (BELL H.S.) 6'0", 150 
Ibs.: Mr. Everything... one of the premier pt, 
guards in CAN, Ont. provincial team... can 
run break as well as any prep player in CAN. 
Tournament Draw 
Friday April 4: 
Toronto vs. Québec, 18:30h 
Ottawa-Carleton vs. Eastern Mass., 20:30h' 
Saturday April 5: 
~ Consolation, 14:00h 
Championship, 16:00h 
All games at Currle Gym, 
475 Pine Ave. 





the esprit de corps.” 


McGill athletes are approaching 
heads of companies with letters of 
introduction from Staples, asking them 
to sponsor athletes for up to $100 so 
that he or she can participate in in- 
ternational competition; some athletes 
are Organizing baskathons, and some 
are putting in money from their own 
pockets. The Redmen and Martlets are 
doing it all for themselves and they will 
get the most out of the trip, 

‘It’s an educational process with the 
athletes,’’ Staples says when 
discussing the real aim of trips past and 
present. And there is also the im- 
portance of the trips in later years for 
athletes who have been there. They say 


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it was the finest event in their years at 
McGill. “ 

_ “It's also a chance to travel with a 
group of people. When we were in Israel 
we Saw more than the ordinary tourist 
could see and it was the same with 
Czechoslovakia." 

Next to soccer, basketball is probably 
the ecumenical sport of nations and 
Staples realizes the goodwill aspect of 
these trips. . | 

“You could say we're ambassadors," 
he declares. “McGill groups, when they 
travel, have an awfully good record, not 
just at winning.” 

Of course, the international programs 
are not without practical benefit for the 
Martlet and Redmen basketball 
program. 

It doesn't hurt recruiting and it's a 
good morale builder,” Staples says. 
“With the trip, we break from May 25 to 
September 15 so we keep the team 
together longer and it extends the 
length of the season." 

And when the Redmen hit the court in 
September, the prospects for ‘80-'81 wil 
be as rosy as Mateus. 

The Tip-Off is Closer than You Think 

Recruiting for next season began in 
earnest long before this season ended, 
as it should have. The star in the 
Redmen’s future could be Willie Hinz, a 
6'5"’, 200 Ib. center for St. Pius X High 
School in Ottawa, a member of the 
Ottawa-Carleton team at the Timmy 
tourney and importantly, the type of 
player Staples loves. 

“Not only is he a great ballplayer, but 
he’s got a 94% average," Staples - 


. beams. “For McGill University he'd be a 


prize because he is an exceptional 
athlete who combines those qualities.” 


Hinz hasn't gone unnoticed by 
other schools and he has been ap- 


see Redmen on the Road, p.61 


page 59/ The McGill Daily 


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by The Phantom Runner 

Did you know that in ancient 
Greece not only were women 
not allowed to compete in the 
Olympic Games, but that any 
woman caught viewing any 
portion of the games was 
Summarily and legally hurled to 
her death from any mountain 
that happened to be nearby? 
Fortunately the situation at 
McGill with respect to women's 
athletics is not quite as bad. In 
fact, women’s athletics at 
McGill at every level can be sald 
to be flourishing. Participation 
In every sector of the athletics 
program is up, a condition of 
equity has been achieved with 
the men in several crucial areas 
affecting Intramural play—in 
areas such as the length of 
games, the quality of officiat- 
Ing and the variety of athletic 
activities offered—and several 
of the women's varsity teams, 
notably the basketball'and the 


fleld hockey teams, have dist- 


Inguished at ean in inter- 
cojlegiate ply. . 

‘Of course, problems exist— 
facilities, notably playing field 


- 
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space, is short for men as well 


as for women and everyone: 


could use more money. McGill 
women suffer as well from the 
lack of sports tradition for 
women within French Canada 
-and, in particular, at French- 


Canadian universities. This last 


fact has become. especially 
pertinent as of 1971 when the 
long established McGill - U of T 
- Queen's Intercollegiate rival- 


ries became to a large extent a. 


thing of the past with McGill's 
exit from the OQU, A -for 
financial reasons. 

Let's begin at the level at 
which most McGill students are 
affected by the nature and 
extent of McGill’s athletic 
resources. . 

Women differ from men 
Significantly in terms of the 


. way In which they choose to 
make use of these resources at 


McGill. The possible reasons 
for these differences provide 


interesting food for psycholog- 
Ical and sociological specula- 
tion. Of the approximately 
2,000 McGill students who will 
have taken part in intramural 
team competition by the end of 
the academic year, something 
less than a third will be women. 
And of the approximately 400 
students who will have partic- 
ipated in individual intramural 
sports, a smaller fraction than a 
third will be women. 

Jan Meyer, who doubles as 
the director of women's Intra- 
murals as well as coaching the 
women’s varsity field hockey 
team, feels that “women are 
just not as attuned to competi- 
tive sports as men. We have to 
go after them a little more. Yet 
once they get Into sports they 
really enjoy it. It’s just difficult 


. to get them involved initially.” 


Women seem shyer, more 
self-conscious than men. They 
seem to be reluctant to partici- 
pate In a sport If they feel that 
they haven't attained at least a 
certain level of expertise 
Miss Meyer adds that this may 
camouflage the fact that men 
who are not athletically inclin- 
ed undergo (a probably some- 


times ego-rough) a weeding out 


process in the high schools. 
Women who haven't had any 
athletic opportunities at: the 
high, school level arrive at 
McGill unsure of an athletic 
ability that has rarely If ever 


been tested. 


Another way in which men 
and women differ In their 
approach to the intramural 
program at McGill is revealed In 
the fact that men seeking to 
compete at this level tend to 
sign up in groups of friends, 
whereas women tend to sign up 
as Individuals. This would 
seem to suggest that sports 
plays a far greater part In the 
formation of groups of friends 
amongst men than women, at 
least up to the university level. 

Despite thelr numbers rela- 
tive to men, women have made 
great progress In the Intramur- 


Redmen on the Road... 


als. For example, only two 
years ago a woman who wanted 
to compete at the intramural 
level In Ice hockey had to run 
up to the Winter Stadium, 
Change and run back to class- 
es, all for two seven-minute 
periods of play. Given that she 
was one of a number of women 
on the team, she probably 
recelved, something like two 


. Minutes of -ice time for her 
efforts. Now the women's. 


game—in other sports as well 
as nhockey—i< the same as 
men's. SPF ATAETE 


The situation of the numbers 
of women relative to men 
competing In sports changes 
dramatically in the case of the 
Instructional programs. Here, 


‘women actually outnumber 


men, comprising between 60 
and 70 per cent of the some 
2,000 students who opt for 
these programs. 

These figures may be slightly 
misleading in as much as some 
programs, notably those given 
over to dance—Jazz, ballet, 
modern, Hawallan and tap—are 
composed almost exclusively 
of women. And one program, 
wen-do—women's self-defence 
—is by its very nature restricted 
to women. But If these numb- 
ers were subtracted from ‘the 
‘totals, one would still find 
more women than men partic- 
Ipating In this sector of the 
sports program. 

This observation is consist- 
ent with the observed reticence. 
of women to compete In a sport 
If they feel unsure of their skill 
level. Butch Staples, men’s 
basketball coach remarks, 
“Women by nature receive 
Instruction better than men. 
Men experience ego’ problems 
in admitting their need for help 
or instruction.” 

It Is very tempting to link up 
this last remark with the fact 
that Canada's greatest Interna- 
tlonal athletes in the last 
decade—a decade in which 
success at the International 


“This tournament is going to indicate 


level has demanded a far 
greater degree of assimilation 
of skills and dedication than 
ever before—have nearly all 
been women - viz. Elaine 
Tanner, Nancy Greene, Karen 
Magnusson, Diane Jones- 
Konihowski, Debble Brill and 
Susan Natrass. A willingness 
to learn Is definitely a require- 
ment for the athlete alming at 
competition at the highest 
levels. 

In the area of sports clubs, 
several clubs exist uniquely for 
women. Among these are the 
women’s squash clubs, rugby 
clubs and the synchronized 
swimming club. Others, such 
as the Contemporary Dance 
Workshop and the figure skat- 
Ing club are for all intents and 
purposes women’s clubs, given 


that the vast majority of: 


members is women. 

The existence of these wo- 
men’s clubs means that In total 
participation in this facet of the 
McGill athletic program, wo- 
men and men. are represented 
In near equal numbers. 


Women were. admitted to 


McGill only as of 1884, that is, 
In the heyday, so to speak, of 
the Victorian Era. They were 
regarded as far too frail. to 
engage in organized sports. 
Although intramural competit- 
lon began, presumably with 
some opposition on the part of 
the sort of crusty old codgers 
whose influence during this 
century was most visibly felt in 
the Olympic movement, it was 
not until 1921 that women's 
Intercollegiate sports began at 
McGill. 

Dr. Gladys Bean, the director 
of women's athletics at McGill, 
feels it was the women's 
contribution to the war effort 
that served to finally disabuse 
people of the idea of. their 
excessive fragility and Inability 
to cope with the rigors of 
varsity sport. At that time, 
McGill joined the University of 
Toronto and Queen's in a three 
team league that was augment- 


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_ The state of women’s athletics at McGill __ 


ed in successive stages as 
universities continued to be 
built and to offer their services 
to women. And so, in 1971 
when McGill's trustees decided 
that intercollegiate athletics as 
they existed were a luxury that 
could no longer be afforded, a 
tradition that had-spanned half 
a century came to an end. 

The intercollegiate scene at 
McGill Is still in the throes of 
recovering from that trauma. 
Although things were reorgan- 
ized along provincial lines, 
women’s sports were particul- 
arly hurt by the already ment- 
loned lack of tradition in 
women’s sports in French-Can- 
adian universities. Whereas 
men’s hockey, for instance, has 
been accommodated by the 
formation of a Quebec Provin- 
clal University League, women 
have been forced to join a city 
league. Women in field hockey, 
an exclusively Anglo-Saxon 
pastime, have had to pay a 
visitor's fee for the privilege of 
playing in the OWIAA and this 
arrangement sees them on the 
road nearly every weekend in 
the fall season. All in all, the 


women have nad to scramble 
quite a bit more than the men in 
order to arrange a competitive 
season. 

Nevertheless, results have 
been encouraging. The field 
hockey team finished third in 
the league which furnished the 
number one and two teams in 
the national playdowns. The 
Martlet basketball squad en- 
joyed outstanding success this 
season and the skling team 
participated in the prestigious 
Can-Am tournament. 


With longer seasons, more 
intensive training, significant 
scientific advances in how to 
train athletes and with a staff 
that seems dedicated to giving 
women a fair share of McGill's 
available athletic resources, the 
future of McGill women’s athl- 
etics seems bright. 


“Anything negative between us 





..continued from p.59 


proached by. a number of American 
universities, including Ohio State. 

In our own backyard, Staples and 
assistant coach Eddie Pomykala are 
pursuing two 6'2" guards from CEGEP 
Maisonneuve, François Dion and Benoit 
Plante. Dion was All-Canadian in his 
freshman year and is one of the best 
guards in Québec. Plante is a defensive 
specialist who has been a Québec team 


. member for three years. 


Also in the McGill sights is forward 
Ron Penston of Vanier. The 6'4'', 190 Ib. 
Penston is reputed to be one of the best 
shooters. ever in CEGEP ball (he had 
season highs of 45 and 43 points) and 


will also be at the Timmy tournament : 


with Dion and Plante, 

The Redmen look pretty secure at 
guard next year with the return after a 
one year absence of former freshman 
All-Ganadian Gordie Brabant. Brabant 
will. convieniently replace the lone 


graduate John Ippolito's spot on the 
roster, 

The McGill basketball schedule for 
next season is one that Staples calls 
“the best we've ever had.” It starts with 
an exhibition game against the Queen's 
Golden Gaels at Currie Gym, followed 
by the first of four tournaments the 
Redmen have entered, their own 


Redmen Invitational. The York Yeomen’ 


and University of New Brunswick are 
Signed already and Waterloo may 
complete the field. 

Two weeks later the Redmen travel of 
Waterloo for the fabled Naismith 
Tournament; the following week they 
head back in the same direction to the 
Western Ontario Invitational, featuring 
Western, Toronto and Carleton; and 
finally they open December with their 
third tournament in three weekends, the 
Concordia Invitational. : 

That kind of schedule, the Timmy 
tourney and the trips abroad tell you 
about the desire Staples and Pomykala 
have to establish the McGill program. 


so much to us,” Staples says. “If we de 
well we'll know that basketball 
healthy at McGill. 

“You can be sure the same ,__., 
will come to watch McGill. For me this 
is the easiest sport to market because 
the highest level of basketball played in 
Canada is at the university level. I'm, 
kind of enthusiastic, you know, Eddie's 
got some good ideas together and he's 
been really positive for our program." 

The Enchanted Forest never counted 
the note tree among its numbers, Butch 


the Gardener and Eddie the Pruner have . 


been staving off the overtures of Walt 
Disney for some time now; they've got 


many more rings to put on McGill 


basketball's note tree. 





Rush and Grenier... 
...continued from p.58 


year and with. our experience, we 
ought to take the QUAA Vezina next 
year.” 


April 2, 1980 


comes from outside sources," Grenier 
emohasizes. “We get along fine. | . 


really want to work with Larry next 
year.” 


Both had pralse for the third man of 
the netminding team corps, Nick 
Shilletto. As Rush put it, even though 
Shilletto only played one game, “he 
was always there, at practice and 
games, he worked hard, and he's got 
great potential for next year." 

On the subject of next year, Grenier 
remained mute, “because l'm not given 
to predictions,” but Rush hopes to 
make the team because “there was a lot 


- Of disappointment this year, and I'd like 


to turn it around.” 

“| could play hockey 365 days a 
year,” Grenier admits. “You need both 
talent and luck to make it. | know one 
who did (Bob Holland, now with 
Pittsburgh). Don't give up.” 

Since both of these young men are 
expected back on the Redmen team 
for next season, this reporter: doubts 
whether either of them will ever stop 
short of the top. 


__ page 61/ The McGill Daily 








Hope springs 
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by Brahm Pascal 


More than anything, it is the 
smell of a sporting event that 
tantalizes the fan before ap- 
proaching the precipice of loge 
202. We know we're at the 
hockey game because of the 
opaque odor of the Ice mixed 
with the pungency of fresh 
Molson and cigarettes and 
hotdogs. 

Football in March is one of 
the commonest causes of 
nasal vertigo and that's what a 
Redmen spring practice can do 


to you. But before going fur-- 


ther, “The returning players 
from last year are here mainly 
to accelerate their skill 
development," says head 
coach Charlie Baillie. 

So it is skill development and 
not spring practice that took 
place last Monday through 
Thursday in Currie Gym 
and Saturday morning on the 
turf of Molson Stadium. 

The Redmen will have 30 
players back from last year's 
team, losing Don Charter, Phil 
Battaglia, Estes Benson and 
Mike Kelly on defence, and 
George Eagan and Paul Gohier 
on offence. 

“That's the least number of 
players we've lost since I've 
been here,” Baillie remarked. 

_ The quarterback position has 
no definite heir at this moment. 
Incumbent Vic Pywowarczuk 
has recovered from his frac- 
tured jaw, but is presently in a 
leg cast recovering from a 
serious knee operation. (He 
hurt it playing basketball.) 
There is some question as to 
whether or not the knee will be 
strong enough to allow Vic to 


play football. Kevin Smith, on . 


the other hand, has eligibility 
problems. He played for John 


Abbott back when it was in the > 


college league and so he has 
legally lost his eligibility even 
though Abbott is no longer part 
of the CIAU. Smith is con- 
testing the ruling. 

Thus this spring develop- 
ment camp is perfectly suited 
for a young man named Gerald 
Duprés, a quarterback for Trois- 
Rivieres who was the out- 
standing CEGEP player in 
Québec last year and who is 
considering McGill. 

“He doesn't speak English 
but through graduates in 
Ontario we got him a job 
working in Toronto,” Baillie 
revealed. “He may need more 
CEGEP courses, but with the 
job | don’t think language will 
be a problem." 

That's another big part of the 
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favorable attitudes about 
McGill and Redmen football in 
the fresh spring air. 

This provides an opportunity 
for new people to visit the 
campus, see us and see the 
coaches in a mini recruiting 
session,” Baillie says. ‘But | 
emphasize that the main 
purpose for the athletes is the 
development of skills." 

With the resignation of of- 
fensive coordinator David 
Lennon, his replacement 
Wayne Commerford and 
recently appointed defensive 
backfield coach Brian Acton 
had a chance to get acquainted 
with the players in a football 
milieu while “imparting some 
new ideas. — 

Lennon, a member of the 
Redmen coaching staff -for 
eight years, had family and job 
obligations that conflicted with 
his timespentasacoach. — 

“He's a big loss to us, more 


than as an offensive backfield 


coach,” Baillie said. 

Commerford's plans for the 
offence are more run- than 
pass-oriented but don't look for 
the Wing-T or Veer in Sep- 
tember. We may however, see 
less of the pro-set and more 
exploitation, if that is possible, 
of running back Marc Lacelle. 

Another notable recruit who 
Commerford may be working 
with in training camp on August 
25 is Tom Skypeck Jr., son of 
the former Redmen QB star of 
the late fifties and a high 
schooler from Connecticut. 

The season, will start in 
earnest for the Redmen in 
Toronto, where they will play 
their lone exhibition game 
against UofT. 

“It should rekindle com- 
petition between the two 
schools and it may get McGill 
grads in Toronto interested," 
Baillie says. 

Those grads are a major 
resource of the recruiting 
network, dropping lines when 
they see prospects in their area 
or as employers for out-of-town 
athletes. This is the time of year 
when the grads pitch in and 
anxious fathers talk about their 
son's desire to play ball at 
McGill if he could only get 
accepted and if another school 
doesn't win out. 

Some of what the grads and 
fathers beget in the spring may 
bud in November. 

With some weighty spring 
optimism, the spring when the 
Redmen are reborn, Baillie says 
confidently, “Right now, the 
outlook is excellent. We've got 
some good young kids coming 
in and a good nucleus from last 
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(wholly accidental) term as sports editor. 

Considering the year 1979-80; | am proud to 
say that Daily Sports ran the greatest volume of 
copy in its history, some of it very goo, some of 
it very bad, And | very proudly add that thanks to 
Carl Heine and Richard Katz, we brought the 
McGill reader some of the finest sports 
photographs in the history of Dally Sports. 

Both those statements point up to the 
fickleness of the year to year quality of the 
sports secion and the rest of the Dally. No 
matter how many sports there are on campus, 
we're only as good as the people who come to 
offer their time to volunteer to write sports. In 
this final issue there were commitments for 
stories on a number of interesting athletes on 
campus but, unfortunately, the people who cried 
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goods. That's not sour grapes; after a year down 
here you expect certain things. 

The measure of the true Daily staffer is 
dedication, before writing skills. That is also the 


measure of the McGill athlete and fan. For all, 


their dedication, athletes here know they won't 
be playing In front of adoring crowds or adoring 
administrators and Redmania worsened 
thecrowd situation. There is a Daily tradition to 
write an annual “Call to the Fans." Response is 
abysmal. So I'm beginning to wonder if anybody 
reads the paper. Is there anyone who actually 
reads what we write? Ah, the angst of a Dally 





athletics and the frequent success of their 
endeavors attests to that. They make this job 
worth it. | 

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so applicable to McGill University: the con: 
spiracy of mediocrity is increasing in 
magnitude. Watch it. , | 


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university by reason of his athletic achievements.” A second- 
year P&T student, Lacelle became a starter for the Redmen in 
the third game of the season and rushed for 725 yards, 
averaging six yards a carry with a season high of 198 yards in 
that very first game. Lacelle was a previously awarded the 
Alouette Alumni Trophy as outstanding amateur football player 
in Quebec receiving the same honor from the Québec Amateur 
Football Association. Other nominees were basketball's Rick 
Rusk and soccer's Robert Tipney. 

The Roscoe Award, given annually to the graduating female 
Student “who has shown throughout her years at McGill 
proficiency and leadership particularly in intercollegiate sports, 
was awarded to Laura Drover. A third year Industrial Relations 
student, Drover has been active on the ice hockey Martlets as 
well as the field hockey Martlets and women's rugby team. She 
is also a member of McGill's Athletic Board. Other nominees for 
the award were field hockey's Cathy Halg and ice hockey’s 
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Folkerson. 


Frank with consistent shot- 
making throughout. Marilyn 
Lockhart performed well in two 
outings as spare. Kinahan was 
especially strong in Game Five, 
curling a brilliant 85% to drub 
highly touted Wentworth, 7-0. 

McGill teams have been 
active in a variety of com- 
petitions throughout February 
and March. Kinahan and 
Zadorozny skipped their mixed 
teams to respectable showings 
in Quebec Mixed competitions. 
The McGill women's team of 
Marilyn Lockhart, Beth Wood, 
Joanne Mills and Lorraine 
McBride played in two com- 
petitions, finishing a strong 
second in February before 
Staggering to ‘two Straight 
losses last weekend. 


team skipped by Frank Kinahan 
put a strong and steady week of 
curling together en route to six 
straight wins and a victory in 
the TMR-St. Laurent bonspiel. 

After five lopsided victories, 
Kinahan struggled to a 9-7 win 
over Glenmore. The final game 
belonged to Kinahan. Trailing 3- 
0 after one end and facing 
three guarded Glenmore 
stones, Frank made a perfect 
raise-takeout to count one, 
then followed a Glenmore miss 
with a perfect draw to the four- 
foot to take two: 

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settled down and _ eventually 
drew away to victory. Lead 
Krishna Rao, second Oleg 
Zadorozny, and third Curt 
Folkerson backed up Flashy 


Ladouceur leads 
swimmers at Nat'ls 


Both the McGill men’s and women's varsity swim teams placed 
well In the 16th annual CIAU swimming and diving cham- 
pionships held three weekends ago at Laval University, in Ste, Foy, 
Quebec. 

The individual star performer for the women’s squad was 
Ginette Ladouceur, with silver and bronze medals in the 200 metre 
and 100 metre backstroke, respectively. Ginette also placed 
seventh in the 200 metre |.M. Elaine Leclerc, a newcomer this year, 
finished ninth and twelfth in her breaststroke specialties, 

On the men's team, Lester Jackson, ending a brilliant in- 
tercollegiate career, finished seventh and tenth in the 200 and 100 
metre butterfly events. Bill McCoy finished ninth with a personal 
best time in the 50 metre freestyle. Other strong performances on 
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Dave McGerrigle (100 and 200 metre breaststroke) and Rich . 
Delahunty (400 |.M. and 200 backstroke). 

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1981. ; 


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Alpine Skiing Men: Patrick Dubus 
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Redman Ice Hockey: Ken Covo 
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The big broom is thundering 
down the haliways of Currie 
Gym, pushing a mound of 
Redmania refuse to clear the 
path for Round Two. All of you 
apathetic McGill students, put 
up your dukes, because this 
time the Athletic Department 
really means business. 


Redmania will be reborn as 
of September 1980, and there 
will be no $6,500 loss for the 
Department as was the case 
this year. No sir, next year they 
are going to try and break even 
on Redmania, and if all the “Big 
Mistakes” can be ironed out in 
the meantime, there will be a 
marked increase in student 
participation in the in- 
tercollegiate sports program at 
McGill. 


Aiming too High 


Most of those involved in the 
program conceded that the 


expectations were incredibly ° 


and unrealistically high. The 
department not only planned to 
maké money from advertising 
and ticket revenue, but also to 
resoundingly defeat the severe 
student apathy rampant on the 


McGILL INSTRUCTIONAL ATHLETICS 
Spring and Summer Terms 


The Instructional Program is an opportunity to use the 


athletic facilities and to acquire or improve athletic skills. 


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Semana on the other hand, did catch the Redmanla spirit, to the 


tune ofsixtoteninthe Big House. 


campus, The program was to 
bombard the students and 
alumni with paraphernalia of all 
sorts, including brochures sent 
out to promote the selling of 
season tickets (which failed 
miserably and caused much of 
the program's deficit.) 
Redmania did not exactly 
light a fire under most McGill 
Students. Average attendance 
at the games was between 100 


and 250 people, a tremendous 
decrease from last year. 

“Let's face it, this is a 
Canadian university not 
Dallas,” commented.one of the 
organizers, Steve Livingstone. 

“We four 
worked on the program in the 
summer worked hard, and | 
think we built a good strong 
base for Redmania, but the 
expectations of the Athletic 


students who 


Department {oo 


high." 


Parochialism in Athletic Dept. 


were just 


He added that there was a 
lack of co:operation from the 
Athletic Department 
summer and denied the fact 
that student co-ordinator Paul 
Senecal’s departure in Sep- 
tember should have hindered 
the success of the program, as 
was asserted by Promotion Co- 
ordinator Harry Zarins. 


Zarins told the Daily that 
much of Redmania's 
momentum was lost in Sep- 
tember, when the four students 
left to continue their studies 
and he and several others were 
left to ‘pull it together." 


Zarins is determined that 
lack of foresight and a late start 
won't plague .the Redmania 
program for next season, as 


happend this year. They have 


long begun plans for Sep- 
tember. 


- Weneed Redmania 


From the point of view of 
Athletic Director Robert 
Dubeau, McGill is in drastic 
need of some kind of sports 
promotional program. Red- 


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After $6, 500 loss, AD ponders future of Redmania 


mania, modelled on the wildly 
successful program at 
Southern Methodist University 
in Texas, is, in his opinion, one 
of the most positive things to 
happen at McGill in a long 
while. 


Both Zarins and Dubeau 
agree that the focus of Red:- 
mania must be _ drastically 
altered for 1980-81 if it is to 
succeed at all. Focus will be 
placed on fewer activities, such 


as the Redmania magazine and 


the sale of season tickets. 


A few prime examples of the 
failure of the Redmania en- 
deavour to get students going 
again were the “Home-stretch 
Meal’’ and ‘“Pep Parade.” 
Those ‘“‘events’’ drizzled 
miserably away like Soa 
rain, 


“It's difficult to drum up 
interest in Canadian students 
in general any more,” said 
Dubeau. 


“We'knew we were taking a 
gamble, but if you don't try 
anything, ‘you'll never 
anywhere, right?"’ 


So no more of this cowering 
behind the library stacks—: 
September 1980 belongs to 
Redmania. That translates to 
spirit. 


Co-ordinator: 
. Peter Smith 


Members'of the staff of the Department of Athletics, as 
well as qualified part-time instructors, will teach in the program. 





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TOTAL CLASSES | 


TOTAL CLASSES 
WEEK 


COURSE ‘FEE. HOURS WEEK COURSE FEE HOURS 
Tennis $18 9 1 Jazz Dance 32 18 
Squash 18 9 1 Social Dance 24 18 
Fitness | 18 12 2 Disco Dance 20 12 
Golf 12 6 1 te Tap Dance — 32 18 
Yoga 18 15 2 Learn to Swim 24 12 
Shorinjiryo Karate 32 18 2 Swim Fitness 20 12 
Ballet ' 32 18 2 Aquacises 18 6 
Modern Dance . 32 18 2 


A full course schedule of days and times will be available after April 7 


. Synchronized Swimming 24 18 


call 392-4737 or drop by Office G7 of the Currie Gym. 


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General aie 
Full time students 


‘Summer session students 


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COST 


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. $20 


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$20 
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MAY 1 & 2 
10:00 to 18:00 hrs. 


SUMMER TERM JUNE 26 & 27 


10:00 to 18:00 hrs. 


OFFICEG7 CURRIE GYMNASIUM 
475 PINE AVENUE WEST 


NO CHEQUES PLEASE!!! 


, 1980. For further information 


Participants in the Instructional Program must 


hold a Summer Gym Membership Card: 


Memberships may be purchased from the General 
Office (G3) of the Currie Gym beginning April 28 from ~ 
09:00 to 17:00 hrs. . 





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